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The Killing spinor equation with higher order potentials

Differential Geometry 2008-11-26 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

Let (M^n,g) be a Riemannian spin manifold. The basic equations in supergravity models of type IIa string theory with 4-form flux involve a 3-form T, a 4-form F, a spinorial covariant derivative \nabla depending on \nabla^g, T, F, and a \nabla-parallel spinor field \Psi. We classify and construct many explicit families of solutions to this system of spinorial field equations by means of non-integrable special geometries. The latter include \alpha-Sasakian structures in dimensions 5 and 7, almost Hermitian structures in dimension 6 and cocalibrated G_2-structures in dimension 7. We show that there are several examples also satisfying an additional constraint for the energy-momentum tensor.

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@article{arxiv.0707.2217,
  title  = {The Killing spinor equation with higher order potentials},
  author = {Christof Puhle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.2217},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

28 pages; revised, more concise

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