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We construct a global geometric model for the bosonic sector and Killing spinor equations of four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=1$ supergravity coupled to a chiral non-linear sigma model and a Spin$^{c}_0$ structure. The model involves a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-12 Vicente Cortés , C. I. Lazaroiu , C. S. Shahbazi

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

We consider a class of smooth oriented Lorentzian manifolds in dimensions three and four which admit a nowhere vanishing conformal Killing vector and a closed two-form that is invariant under the Lie algebra of conformal Killing vectors.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-06-20 Paul de Medeiros

We investigate the Killing spinor equations of IIB supergravity for one Killing spinor. We show that there are three types of orbits of Spin(9,1) in the space of Weyl spinors which give rise to Killing spinors with stability subgroups…

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

We give a spinorial characterization of isometrically immersed surfaces into 3-dimensional homogeneous manifolds with 4-dimensional isometry group in terms of the existence of a particular spinor, called generalized Killing spinor. This…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Julien Roth

We present a theorem describing a dual relation between the local geometry of a space admitting a symmetric second-rank Killing tensor, and the local geometry of a space with a metric specified by this Killing tensor. The relation can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 R. H. Rietdijk , J. W. van Holten

We construct exact solutions of the Einstein-Dirac equation, which couples the gravitational field with an eigenspinor of the Dirac operator via the energy-momentum tensor. For this purpose we introduce a new field equation generalizing the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-31 Eui Chul Kim , Thomas Friedrich

A Killing tensor field on a Riemannian space corresponds to an integral of the geodesic flow polynomial in momenta. A Killing tensor field is called decomposable if it is a polynomial in Killing vector fields. In this paper, we first prove…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Vladimir Matveev , Yuri Nikolayevsky

The classification of 4-dimensional naturally reductive pseudo-Riemannian spaces is given. This classification comprises symmetric spaces, the product of 3-dimensional naturally reductive spaces with the real line and new families of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-07-14 Wafaa Batat , Marco Castrillon Lopez , Eugenia Rosado Maria

We construct the Killing spinors for a class of supersymmetric solutions of type IIB supergravity that are invariant under the non-relativistic Schrodinger algebra. The solutions depend on a five-dimensional Sasaki-Einstein space and it has…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-05 Aristomenis Donos , Jerome P. Gauntlett

In this paper we initiate a classification of local metrics admitting the principal Killing--Yano tensor with a skew-symmetric torsion. It is demonstrated that in such spacetimes rank-2 Killing tensors occur naturally and mutually commute.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Tsuyoshi Houri , David Kubiznak , Claude M. Warnick , Yukinori Yasui

We generalise the notion of a Killing superalgebra, which arises in the physics literature on supergravity, to general dimension, signature and choice of spinor module and Dirac current. We also allow for Lie algebras as well as…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Andrew D. K. Beckett

We prove the existence of one quarter supersymmetric type IIB configurations that arise as non-trivial scaling solutions of the standard five dimensional Kerr-AdS black holes by the explicit construction of its Killing spinors. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-17 Mirjam Cvetic , Peng Gao , Joan Simón

In this paper we complete the classification of spin manifolds admitting parallel spinors, in terms of the Riemannian holonomy groups. More precisely, we show that on a given n-dimensional Riemannian manifold, spin structures with parallel…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-01-08 Andrei Moroianu , Uwe Semmelmann

We extend the refined G-structure classification of supersymmetric solutions of eleven dimensional supergravity. We derive necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of an arbitrary number of Killing spinors whose common isotropy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 Oisin A. P. Mac Conamhna

Supposing that X is a Riemannian manifold, a Z/2 spinor on X is defined by a data set consisting of a closed set in X to be denoted by Z, a real line bundle over X-Z, and a nowhere zero section on X-Z of the tensor product of the real line…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-07-24 Clifford Henry Taubes

This paper deals with the classification of spinor fields according to the bilinear covariants in 7 dimensions. The previously investigated Riemannian case is characterized by either one spinor field class, in the real case of Majorana…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-26 L. Bonora , Roldao da Rocha

In this paper we solve the problem of finding integrals of equations determining the Killing tensors on an $n$ -dimensional differentiable manifold $M$ endowed with an equiaffine $ SL(n, R) $ -structure and discuss possible applications of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-09-09 S. E. Stepanov , I. I. Tsyganok

We study left-invariant symmetric Killing 2-tensors on 2-step nilpotent Lie groups endowed with a left-invariant Riemannian metric, and construct genuine examples, which are not linear combinations of parallel tensors and symmetric products…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Viviana del Barco , Andrei Moroianu

The space of all non degenerate bilinear structures on a manifold $M$ carries a one parameter family of pseudo Riemannian metrics. We determine the geodesic equation, covariant derivative, curvature, and we solve the geodesic equation…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Olga Gil-Medrano , Peter W. Michor , Martin Neuwirther