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Let $M$ be a pseudo-Riemannian spin manifold of dimension $n$ and signature $s$ and denote by $N$ the rank of the real spinor bundle. We prove that $M$ is locally homogeneous if it admits more than ${3/4}N$ independent Killing spinors with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-13 D. V. Alekseevsky , V. Cortés

In this note, we characterise the existence of non-trivial invariant spinors on maximal flag manifolds associated to complex simple Lie algebras. This characterisation is based on the combinatorial properties of their set of positive roots.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Diego Artacho , Uwe Semmelmann

In this paper, we study the existence of a skew Killing spinor (see the definition below) on 2 and 3-dimensional Riemannian spin manifolds. We establish the integrability conditions and prove that these spinor fields correspond to twistor…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-02-26 Georges Habib , Julien Roth

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

Valence two Killing tensors in the Euclidean and Minkowski planes are classified under the action of the group which preserves the type of the corresponding Killing web. The classification is based on an analysis of the system of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-09-29 C. Chanu , L. Degiovanni , R. G. McLenaghan

We study left-invariant Killing $k$-forms on simply connected $2$-step nilpotent Lie groups endowed with a left-invariant Riemannian metric. For $k=2,3$, we show that every left-invariant Killing $k$-form is a sum of Killing forms on the…

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

Motivated by the study of Killing forms on compact Riemannian manifolds of negative sectional curvature, we introduce the notion of generalized vector cross products on $\mathbb{R}^n$ and give their classification. Using previous results…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Maria Laura Barberis , Andrei Moroianu , Uwe Semmelmann

We prove that, for M theory or type II, generic Minkowski flux backgrounds preserving $\mathcal{N}$ supersymmetries in dimensions $D\geq4$ correspond precisely to integrable generalised $G_{\mathcal{N}}$ structures, where $G_{\mathcal{N}}$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-21 André Coimbra , Charles Strickland-Constable

This article contains a detailed and rigorous proof of the construction of a geometric invariant for initial data sets for the Einstein vacuum field equations. This geometric invariant vanishes if and only if the initial data set…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-01-04 Thomas Bäckdahl , Juan A. Valiente Kroon

The paper studies non-Lie symmetry of the Klein-Gordon-Fock equation (KGF) in $(p+q)$-dimensional Minkowsky space. Full set of symmetry operators for the $n$-order KGF equation was explicitly calculated for arbitrary $n<\infty$ and $p+q…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Anatoly G. Nikitin , Oleksander I. Prylypko

In this paper, we adapt the characterisation of the spin representation via exterior forms to the generalised spin$^r$ context. We find new invariant spin$^r$ spinors on the projective spaces $\mathbb{CP}^n$, $\mathbb{HP}^n$, and the Cayley…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-12 Diego Artacho , Jordan Hofmann

In this work we provide a complete characterization of left-invariant symmetric Killing tensors on almost abelian Lie groups endowed with a left-invariant Riemannian metric. We show in particular that all such tensors are decomposable, in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Renan Berto-Cuevas , Viviana del Barco , Andrei Moroianu

We study the intrinsic geometry of hypersurfaces in Calabi-Yau manifolds of real dimension 6 and, more generally, SU(2)-structures on 5-manifolds defined by a generalized Killing spinor. We prove that in the real analytic case, such a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-09-13 Diego Conti , Simon Salamon

In noncommutative geometry a `Lie algebra' or bidirectional bicovariant differential calculus on a finite group is provided by a choice of an ad-stable generating subset C stable under inversion. We study the associated Killing form. For…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2012-11-26 Javier López Peña , Shahn Majid , Konstanze Rietsch

We introduce the notion of metric Lie algebras of Killing type, which are characterized by the fact that all conformal Killing symmetric tensors are sums of Killing tensors and multiples of the metric tensor. We show that if a Lie algebra…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-05-02 Viviana del Barco , Andrei Moroianu

We determine the necessary and sufficient conditions on the metric and the four-form for the most general bosonic supersymmetric configurations of D=11 supergravity which admit a null Killing spinor i.e. a Killing spinor which can be used…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Jerome P. Gauntlett , Jan B. Gutowski , Stathis Pakis

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 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 study 4-dimensional simply connected Lie groups $G$ with left-invariant Riemannian metric $g$ admitting non-trivial conformal Killing 2-forms. We show that either the real line defined by such a form is invariant under the group action,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-10-15 Adrián Andrada , María Laura Barberis , Andrei Moroianu

This paper is devoted to the classification of 4-dimensional Riemannian spin manifolds carrying skew Killing spinors. A skew Killing spinor $\psi$ is a spinor that satisfies the equation $\nabla$X$\psi$ = AX $\times$ $\psi$ with a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-28 Nicolas Ginoux , Georges Habib , Ines Kath