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Local Geometry of Even Clifford Structures on Conformal Manifolds

Differential Geometry 2019-01-08 v1

Abstract

We introduce the concept of a Clifford-Weyl structure on a conformal manifold, which consists of an even Clifford structure parallel with respect to the tensor product of a metric connection on the Clifford bundle and a Weyl structure on the manifold. We show that the Weyl structure is necessarily closed except for some "generic" low-dimensional instances, where explicit examples of non-closed Clifford-Weyl structures can be constructed.

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@article{arxiv.1611.01665,
  title  = {Local Geometry of Even Clifford Structures on Conformal Manifolds},
  author = {Charles Hadfield and Andrei Moroianu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.01665},
  year   = {2019}
}

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15 pages