Communications in Mathematical Physics

, Volume 154, Issue 3, pp 509–521 | Cite as

Real Killing spinors and holonomy

  • Christian Bär
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Abstract

We give a description of all complete simply connected Riemannian manifolds carrying real Killing spinors. Furthermore, we present a construction method for manifolds with the exceptional holonomy groupsG2 and Spin(7).

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Christian Bär
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  1. 1.Mathematisches Institut der Universität BonnBonn 1Germany

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