Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1893839 Journal of Geometry and Physics 2012 11 Pages PDF
Abstract

We consider weighted parallel spinors in Lorentzian Weyl geometry in arbitrary dimensions, choosing the weight such that the integrability condition for the existence of such a spinor implies the geometry to be Einstein–Weyl. We then use techniques developed for the classification of supersymmetric solutions to supergravity theories to characterise those Lorentzian EW geometries that allow for a weighted parallel spinor, calling the resulting geometries supersymmetric. The overall result is that they are either conformally related to ordinary geometries admitting parallel spinors (w.r.t. the Levi-Cività connection), or they are conformally related to certain Kundt spacetime. A full characterisation is obtained for the 4- and 6-dimensional cases.

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