Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1895213 Journal of Geometry and Physics 2006 15 Pages PDF
Abstract

Killing forms on Riemannian manifolds are differential forms whose covariant derivative is totally skew-symmetric. We prove that on a compact manifold with holonomy G2G2 or Spin7Spin7 any Killing form has to be parallel. The main tool is a universal Weitzenböck formula. We show, how such a formula can be obtained for any given holonomy group and any representation defining a vector bundle.

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