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Spin(9)-structures and connections with totally skew-symmetric torsion

Differential Geometry 2009-11-07 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study Spin(9)-structures on 16-dimensional Riemannian manifolds and characterize the geometric types admitting a connection with totally skew-symmetric torsion.

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@article{arxiv.math/0201263,
  title  = {Spin(9)-structures and connections with totally skew-symmetric torsion},
  author = {Thomas Friedrich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0201263},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Latex2e, 8 pages