59 research outputs found
Killing and twistor spinors with torsion
We study twistor spinors (with torsion) on Riemannian spin manifolds carrying metric connections with totally skew-symmetric torsion. We
consider the characteristic connection and
under the condition , we show that the twistor equation with
torsion w.r.t. the family can be viewed as a
parallelism condition under a suitable connection on the bundle
, where is the associated spinor bundle.
Consequently, we prove that a twistor spinor with torsion has isolated zero
points. Next we study a special class of twistor spinors with torsion, namely
these which are -eigenspinors and parallel under the characteristic
connection; we show that the existence of such a spinor for some
implies that is both Einstein and -Einstein, in
particular the equation holds for any
. In fact, for -parallel spinors we provide a
correspondence between the Killing spinor equation with torsion and the
Riemannian Killing spinor equation. This allows us to describe 1-parameter
families of non-trivial Killing spinors with torsion on nearly K\"ahler
manifolds and nearly parallel -manifolds, in dimensions 6 and 7,
respectively, but also on the 3-dimensional sphere . We finally
present applications related to the universal and twistorial eigenvalue
estimate of the square of the cubic Dirac operator.Comment: to appear in Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry, the number of
pages has been reduced to 28, minor change
Invariant connections with skew-torsion and -Einstein manifolds
For a compact connected Lie group we study the class of bi-invariant
affine connections whose geodesics through are the 1-parameter
subgroups. We show that the bi-invariant affine connections which induce
derivations on the corresponding Lie algebra coincide with the
bi-invariant metric connections. Next we describe the geometry of a naturally
reductive space endowed with a family of -invariant connections
whose torsion is a multiple of the torsion of the canonical
connection . For the spheres and we
prove that the space of (resp. )-invariant affine or
metric connections consists of the family . Then we examine
the "constancy" of the induced Ricci tensor and prove that
any compact simply-connected isotropy irreducible standard homogeneous
Riemannian manifold, which is not a symmetric space of Type I, is a
-Einstein manifold for any . We also
provide examples of -Einstein structures for a class of compact
homogeneous spaces with two isotropy summands.Comment: 25 pages, to appear in Journal of Lie Theory. The presentation of the
paper has been improved, some misprints and errors were corrected. The
material regarding the flat case has been removed and an error in Theorem 4.7
has been correcte
Flag manifolds, symmetric \fr{t}-triples and Einstein metrics
Let be a compact connected simple Lie group and let M=G^{\bb{C}}/P=G/K
be a generalized flag manifold. In this article we focus on an important
invariant of , the so called \fr{t}-root system R_{\fr{t}}, and we
introduce the notion of symmetric \fr{t}-triples, that is triples of
\fr{t}-roots \xi, \zeta, \eta\in R_{\fr{t}} such that .
We describe their properties and we present an interesting application on the
structure constants of , quantities which are straightforward related to
the construction of the homogeneous Einstein metric on . Next we classify
symmetric \fr{t}-triples for generalized flag manifolds with second
Betti number , and we treat also the case of full flag manifolds
, where is a maximal torus of . In the last section we construct
the homogeneous Einstein equation on flag manifolds with five isotropy
summands, determined by the simple Lie group G=\SO(7). By solving the
corresponding algebraic system we classify all \SO(7)-invariant
(non-isometric) Einstein metrics, and these are the very first results towards
the classification of homogeneous Einstein metrics on flag manifolds with five
isotropy summands.Comment: 18 pages (the text has been reduced to 18 pages, some misprints has
been corrected, unchanged results
A new -Ricci type formula on the spinor bundle and applications
Consider a Riemannian spin manifold endowed with a
non-trivial 3-form , such that , where
is the metric connection with
skew-torsion . In this note we introduce a generalized -Ricci
type formula for the spinorial action of the Ricci endomorphism , induced by the one-parameter family of metric connections
. This new identity extends a result described by
Th. Friedrich and E. C. Kim, about the action of the Riemannian Ricci
endomorphism on spinor fields, and allows us to present a series of
applications. For example, we describe a new alternative proof of the
generalized Schr\"odinger-Lichnerowicz formula related to the square of the
Dirac operator , induced by , under the condition
. In the same case, we provide integrability conditions for
-parallel spinors, -parallel spinors and twistor
spinors with torsion. We illustrate our conclusions for some non-integrable
structures satisfying our assumptions, e.g. Sasakian manifolds, nearly K\"ahler
manifolds and nearly parallel -manifolds, in dimensions 5, 6 and 7,
respectively
The classification of homogeneous Einstein metrics on flag manifolds with
Let be a simple compact connected Lie group. We study homogeneous
Einstein metrics for a class of compact homogeneous spaces, namely generalized
flag manifolds with second Betti number . There are 8
infinite families corresponding to a classical simple Lie group and
25 exceptional flag manifolds, which all have some common geometric features;
for example they admit a unique invariant complex structure which gives rise to
unique invariant K\"ahler--Einstein metric. The most typical examples are the
compact isotropy irreducible Hermitian symmetric spaces for which the Killing
form is the unique homogeneous Einstein metric (which is K\"ahler). For
non-isotropy irreducible spaces the classification of homogeneous Einstein
metrics has been completed for 24 of the 26 cases. In this paper we construct
the Einstein equation for the two unexamined cases, namely the flag manifolds
\E_8/\U(1)\times \SU(4)\times \SU(5) and \E_8/\U(1)\times \SU(2)\times
\SU(3)\times \SU(5). In order to determine explicitly the Ricci tensors of an
\E_8-invariant metric we use a method based on the Riemannian submersions.
For both spaces we classify all homogeneous Einstein metrics and thus we
conclude that any flag manifold with admits a finite number
of non-isometric non-K\"ahler invariant Einstein metrics. The precise number of
these metrics is given in Table 1.Comment: 17 pages, (the complete classification of homogeneous Einstein
metrics on flag manifolds with second Betti number 1 has been obtained
Non-naturally reductive Einstein metrics on exceptional Lie groups
Given an exceptional compact simple Lie group we describe new
left-invariant Einstein metrics which are not naturally reductive. In
particular, we consider fibrations of over flag manifolds with a certain
kind of isotropy representation and we construct the Einstein equation with
respect to the induced left-invariant metrics. Then we apply a technique based
on Gr\"obner bases and classify the real solutions of the associated algebraic
systems. For the Lie group we obtain the first known example of a
left-invariant Einstein metric, which is not naturally reductive. Moreover, for
the Lie groups and , we conclude that there exist
non-isometric non-naturally reductive Einstein metrics, which are -invariant by different Lie subgroups .Comment: 33 page
Invariant Einstein metrics on flag manifolds with four isotropy summands
A generalized flag manifold is a homogeneous space of the form , where
is the centralizer of a torus in a compact connected semisimple Lie group
. We classify all flag manifolds with four isotropy summands and we study
their geometry. We present new -invariant Einstein metrics by solving
explicity the Einstein equation. We also examine the isometric problem for
these Einstein metrics
A note on the volume of -Einstein manifolds with skew-torsion
We study the volume of compact Riemannian manifolds which are Einstein with
respect to a metric connection with (parallel) skew-torsion. We provide a
result for the sign of the first variation of the volume in terms of the
corresponding scalar curvature. This generalizes a result of M. Ville, related
with the first variation of the volume on a compact Einstein manifold.Comment: 7 pages, to appear in "Communications in Mathematics
Homogeneous Einstein metrics on the generalized flag manifold Sp(n)/(U(p) x U(n-p))
We find the precise number of non-K\"ahler -invariant Einstein metrics
on the generalized flag manifold with
and . We use an analysis on parametric systems of polynomial
equations and we give some insight towards the study of such systems.Comment: 15 page
Spin structures on compact homogeneous pseudo-Riemannian manifolds
We study spin structures on compact simply-connected homogeneous
pseudo-Riemannian manifolds (M = G/H, g) of a compact semisimple Lie group G.
We classify flag manifolds F = G/H of a compact simple Lie group which are
spin. This yields also the classification of all flag manifolds carrying an
invariant metaplectic structure. Then we investigate spin structures on
principal torus bundles over flag manifolds, i.e. C-spaces, or equivalently
simply-connected homogeneous complex manifolds M=G/L of a compact semisimple
Lie group G. We study the topology of M and we provide a sufficient and
necessary condition for the existence of an (invariant) spin structure, in
terms of the Koszul form of F. We also classify all C-spaces which are fibered
over an exceptional spin flag manifold and hence they are spin
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