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Spinorially twisted Spin structures, III: CR structures

Differential Geometry 2016-10-17 v1

Abstract

We develop a spinorial description of CR structures of arbitrary codimension. More precisely, we characterize almost CR structures of arbitrary codimension on (Riemannian) manifolds by the existence of a Spinc,r^{c, r} structure carrying a partially pure spinor field. We study various integrability conditions of the almost CR structure in our spinorial setup, including the classical integrability of a CR structure as well as those implied by Killing-type conditions on the partially pure spinor field. In the codimension one case, we develop a spinorial description of strictly pseudoconvex CR manifolds, metric contact manifolds and Sasakian manifolds. Finally, we study hypersurfaces of Kaehler manifolds via partially pure Spinc^c spinors.

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@article{arxiv.1610.04497,
  title  = {Spinorially twisted Spin structures, III: CR structures},
  author = {Rafael Herrera and Roger Nakad and Ivan Tellez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.04497},
  year   = {2016}
}
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