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We define higher spin Killing spinors on Riemannian spin manifolds in arbitrary dimension and study them in detail in dimension three. We prove a rigidity result for 3-dimensional manifolds admitting higher spin Killing spinors and give…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Yasushi Homma , Natsuki Imada , Soma Ohno

We generalize the symmetry superalgebras of isometries and geometric Killing spinors on a manifold to include all the hidden symmetries of the manifold generated by Killing spinors in all dimensions. We show that bilinears of geometric…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-05-27 Özgür Açık , Ümit Ertem

We introduce the notion of K\"ahler manifolds that are almost Einstein and we define a generalized mean curvature vector field along submanifolds in them. We prove that Lagrangian submanifolds remain Lagrangian, when deformed in direction…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-07-19 Tapio Behrndt

In this paper we develop new methods of study of generalized normal homogeneous Riemannian manifolds. In particular, we obtain a complete classification of generalized normal homogeneous Riemannian metrics on spheres. We prove that for any…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-26 V. N. Berestovskii , Yu. G. Nikonorov

Simply connected 3-dimensional homogeneous manifolds $E(\kappa, \tau)$, with 4-dimensional isometry group, have a canonical Spin$^c$ structure carrying parallel or Killing spinors. The restriction to any hypersurface of these parallel or…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-02-22 Roger Nakad , Julien Roth

A non-trivial spinor field $\psi$ is called a generalized imaginary $\mathrm{Spin}^c$-Killing spinor if $\nabla^{g,A} _X \psi = i\mu X \cdot \psi$ for all vector fields $X$, where $\mu$ is a real function that is not identically zero and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-11 José Luis Carmona Jiménez

We employ the G-structure formalism to study supersymmetric solutions of minimal and SU(2) gauged supergravities in seven dimensions admitting Killing spinors with associated timelike Killing vector. The most general such Killing spinor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Marco Cariglia , Oisin A. P. Mac Conamhna

We study curved-space rigid supersymmetry for two-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=(2,2)$ supersymmetric fields theories with a vector-like $R$-symmetry by coupling such theories to background supergravity. The associated Killing spinors can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Cyril Closset , Stefano Cremonesi

In this paper, we extend the study of generalized Killing spinors on Riemannian Spin$^c$ manifolds started by Moroianu and Herzlich to complex Killing functions. We prove that such spinor fields are always real Spin$^c$ Killing spinors or…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-11-06 Nadine Große , Roger Nakad

Let $\mathcal{Z}$ be a spin $4$-manifold carrying a parallel spinor and $M\hookrightarrow \mathcal{Z}$ a hypersurface. The second fundamental form of the embedding induces a flat metric connection on $TM$. Such flat connections satisfy a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-04-28 Brice Flamencourt , Sergiu Moroianu

We consider spin manifolds with an Einstein metric, either Riemannian or indefinite, for which there exists a Killing spinor. We describe the intrinsic geometry of nondegenerate hypersurfaces in terms of a PDE satisfied by a pair of induced…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-19 Diego Conti , Romeo Segnan Dalmasso

We define the notion of a Killing (super)algebra for a connection on a spinor bundle associated to a generalised spin structure on a pseudo-Riemannian manifold of any signature. We are led naturally to include in the even subspace not only…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Andrew D. K. Beckett

We classify Riemannian $\text{spin}^c$ manifolds carrying a type I imaginary generalized Killing spinor, by explicitly constructing a parallel spinor on each leaf of the canonical foliation given by the Dirac current. We also provide a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Samuel Lockman

We provide a general method for studying manifestly $O(n+1)$ covariant formulation of $p$-form gauge theories by stereographically projecting these theories, defined in flat Euclidean space, onto the surface of a hypersphere. The gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Rabin Banerjee

In this note we generalize the methods of [1][2][3] to 5-dimensional Riemannian manifolds M. We study the relations between the geometry of M and the number of solutions to a generalized Killing spinor equation obtained from a 5-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Yiwen Pan

The complex projective space $\mathbb C P^2$ of complex dimension $2$ has a Spin$^c$ structure carrying K\"ahlerian Killing spinors. The restriction of one of these K\"ahlerian Killing spinors to a surface $M^2$ characterizes the isometric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-04-05 Roger Nakad , Julien Roth

A Sasakian quasi-Killing spinor (SqK-spinor), which is a generalization of a Killing spinor on Sasakian manifolds, was defined in \cite{Kim Friedrich 2000}.The purpose of this paper is to study in detail SqK-spinors on three-dimensional…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Satsuki Matsuno , Fumihiro Ueno

A supermanifold M is canonically associated to any pseudo Riemannian spin manifold (M_0,g_0). Extending the metric g_0 to a field g of bilinear forms g(p) on T_p M, p\in M_0, the pseudo Riemannian supergeometry of (M,g) is formulated as…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2009-10-30 D. V. Alekseevsky , V. Cortés , C. Devchand , U. Semmelmann

We determine the holonomy of generalized Killing spinor covariant derivatives of the form $D= \nabla + \Omega$ on pseudo-Riemannian reductive homogeneous spaces in a purely algebraic and algorithmic way, where $\Omega : TM \rightarrow…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-10 Andree Lischewski

We give a spinorial construction of Sasakian and 3-Sasakian structures in arbitrary dimension, generalizing previously known results in dimensions 5 and 7. Furthermore, we obtain a complete description of the space of invariant spinors on a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Jordan Hofmann