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This paper studies the two-component spinor form of massive spin-3/2 potentials in conformally flat Einstein four-manifolds. Following earlier work in the literature, a non-vanishing cosmological constant makes it necessary to introduce a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Giampiero Esposito , Giuseppe Pollifrone

We construct exact analytic solutions for a supersymmetric Chern-Simons theory with matter fields in the adjoint representation (unconventional supersymmetry). The configurations correspond to gravitating spinor fields on BTZ geometries…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-04 P. D. Alvarez , J. Ortiz , J. Zanelli

Curvature properties of the characteristic connection on an integrable $G_2$ manifold are investigated. We consider integrable $G_2$ manifold of constant type, i.e. the scalar product of the exterior derivative of the $G_2$ form with its…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Stefan Ivanov , Nikola Stanchev

In this paper, we investigate the rigidity of Q-curvature. Specifically, we consider a closed, oriented $n$-dimensional ($n\geq6$) Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ and prove the following results under the condition $\int_{M} \nabla R\cdot\nabla…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-08 Yiyan Xu , Shihong Zhang

The second order Killing and conformal tensors are analyzed in terms of their spectral decomposition, and some properties of the eigenvalues and the eigenspaces are shown. When the tensor is of type I with only two different eigenvalues,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Bartolomé Coll , Joan Josep Ferrando , Juan Antonio Sáez

On a K\"ahler spin manifold K\"ahlerian twistor spinors are a natural analogue of twistor spinors on Riemannian spin manifolds. They are defined as sections in the kernel of a first order differential operator adapted to the K\"ahler…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-02-01 Mihaela Pilca

For a Dirac operator $D_{\bar{g}}$ over a spin compact Riemannian manifold with boundary $(\bar{X},\bar{g})$, we give a natural construction of the Calder\'on projector and of the associated Bergman projector on the space of harmonic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-09-17 Colin Guillarmou , Sergiu Moroianu , Jinsung Park

Given a real, finite-dimensional, smooth parallelizable Riemannian manifold $(\mathcal{N},G)$ endowed with a teleparallel connection $\nabla$ determined by a choice of a global basis of vector fields on $\mathcal{N}$, we show that the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-09-20 Florio M. Ciaglia , Fabio Di Cosmo , Alberto Ibort , Giuseppe Marmo

We consider generic static spacetimes with Killing horizons and study properties of curvature tensors in the horizon limit. It is determined that the Weyl, Ricci, Riemann and Einstein tensors are algebraically special and mutually aligned…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 V. Pravda , O. B. Zaslavskii

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

Spinorial geometry methods are used to classify solutions admitting Majorana Killing spinors of the minimal 4-dimensional supergravity in neutral signature, with vanishing cosmological constant and a single Maxwell field strength. Two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 J. B. Gutowski , W. A. Sabra

We solve the Killing spinor equations of supersymmetric IIB backgrounds which admit one supersymmetry and the Killing spinor has stability subgroup G_2 in Spin(9,1) x U(1). We find that such backgrounds admit a time-like Killing vector…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-09 U. Gran , J. Gutowski , G. Papadopoulos

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

In this paper, we use a Killing form on a Riemannian manifold to construct a class of Finsler metrics. We find equations that characterize Einstein metrics among this class. In particular, we construct a family of Einstein metrics on $S^3$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-03-08 Xinyue Cheng , Zhongmin Shen

The essentially unique torsionful version of the classical two-component spinor formalisms of Infeld and van der Waerden is presented. All the metric spinors and connecting objects that arise here are formally the same as the ones borne by…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-01-26 J. G. Cardoso

We construct two families of globally supersymmetric counterparts of standard Poincar\'e supersymmetric SYM theories on curved space-times admitting Killing spinors, in all dimensions less than six and eight respectively. The former differs…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Matthias Blau

We consider gauged twistor spinors which are supersymmetry generators of supersymmetric and superconformal field theories in curved backgrounds. We show that the spinor bilinears of gauged twistor spinors satify the gauged conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-22 Ümit Ertem

We consider a 4-dimensional Riemannian manifold M endowed with a right skew-circulant tensor structure S, which is an isometry with respect to the metric g and the fourth power of S is minus identity. We determine a class of manifolds (M,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-14 Iva Dokuzova

The conformal Gauss maps of time-like minimal surfaces in $E^3_1$ give sections of the time-like twistor spaces associated with the pull-back bundles such that the covariant derivatives are fully light-like, that is, these are either…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Naoya Ando

For any manifold M, the direct sum TM \oplus T*M carries a natural inner product given by the pairing of vectors and covectors. Differential forms on M may be viewed as spinors for the corresponding Clifford bundle, and in particular there…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-10-10 Anton Alekseev , Henrique Bursztyn , Eckhard Meinrenken