Generalized Killing spinors associated with the Ricci tensor
Abstract
In this paper, we introduce the notion of Ricci Killing spinors on Riemannian spin manifolds, which form a class between generalized Killing spinors and standard Killing spinors. We establish a rigidity result for Ricci Killing spinors and characterize simply connected Sasakian η-Einstein spin manifolds admitting Ricci Killing spinors. We also give a complete classification of Ricci Killing spinors on simply connected $3$-dimensional unimodular Lie groups with left-invariant Riemannian metrics. In particular, we obtain new examples of generalized Killing spinors which are not Killing spinors. Finally, for the non-Killing Ricci Killing spinors obtained in the Lie group case, we explicitly determine the corresponding Ricci-flat ambient manifolds carrying parallel spinors.
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BibTeX
@misc{imada2026generalized,
title = {{Generalized Killing spinors associated with the Ricci tensor}},
author = {Natsuki Imada},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2605.20694},
eprint = {2605.20694},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.20694},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Generalized Killing spinors associated with the Ricci tensor
AU - Natsuki Imada
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/16
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2605.20694
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.20694
AB - In this paper, we introduce the notion of Ricci Killing spinors on Riemannian spin manifolds, which form a class between generalized Killing spinors and standard Killing spinors. We establish a rigidity result for Ricci Killing spinors and characterize simply connected Sasakian η-Einstein spin manifolds admitting Ricci Killing spinors. We also give a complete classification of Ricci Killing spinors on simply connected $3$-dimensional unimodular Lie groups with left-invariant Riemannian metrics. In particular, we obtain new examples of generalized Killing spinors which are not Killing spinors. Finally, for the non-Killing Ricci Killing spinors obtained in the Lie group case, we explicitly determine the corresponding Ricci-flat ambient manifolds carrying parallel spinors.
ER -