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Motivated by the study of Killing forms on compact Riemannian manifolds of negative sectional curvature, we introduce the notion of generalized vector cross products on $\mathbb{R}^n$ and give their classification. Using previous results about Killing tensors on negatively curved manifolds and a new characterization of $\mathrm{SU}(3)$-structures in dimension $6$ whose associated $3$-form is Killing, we then show that every Killing $3$-form on a compact $n$-dimensional Riemannian manifold with negative sectional curvature vanishes if $n\ge 4$., 16 pages

We describe the second order obstruction to deformation for nearly $G_2$ structures on compact manifolds. Building on work of B.Alexandrov and U.Semmelmann this allows proving rigidity under deformation for the proper nearly $G_2$ structure on the Aloff-Wallach space $N(1,1)$., Improved presentation,added full details on rigidity of Aloff-Wallach space $N(1,1)$. 18 pages

We show that a strict, nearly Kähler 6-manifold with either second or third Betti number nonzero is linearly unstable with respect to the $$\nu $$ν-entropy of Perelman and hence is dynamically unstable for the Ricci flow.

We study conformal Killing forms on compact 6-dimensional nearly Kahler manifolds. Our main result concerns forms of degree 3. Here we give a classification showing that all conformal Killing 3-forms are linear combinations of dω and its Hodge dual ⁎ d ω , where ω is the fundamental 2-form of the nearly Kahler structure. The proof is based on a fundamental integrability condition for conformal Killing forms. We have partial results in the case of conformal Killing 2-forms. In particular we show the non-existence of J-anti-invariant Killing 2-forms.

A geometry with parallel skew-symmetric torsion is a Riemannian manifold carrying a metric connection with parallel skew-symmetric torsion. Besides the trivial case of the Levi-Civita connection, geometries with non-vanishing parallel skew-symmetric torsion arise naturally in several geometric contexts, e.g. on naturally reductive homogeneous spaces, nearly K\"ahler or nearly parallel $\mathrm{G}_2$-manifolds, Sasakian and $3$-Sasakian manifolds, or twistor spaces over quaternion-K\"ahler manifolds with positive scalar curvature. In this paper we study the local structure of Riemannian manifolds carrying a metric connection with parallel skew-symmetric torsion. On every such manifold one can define a natural splitting of the tangent bundle which gives rise to a Riemannian submersion over a geometry with parallel skew-symmetric torsion of smaller dimension endowed with some extra structure. We show how previously known examples of geometries with parallel skew-symmetric torsion fit into this pattern, and construct several new examples. In the particular case where the above Riemannian submersion has the structure of a principal bundle, we give the complete local classification of the corresponding geometries with parallel skew-symmetric torsion., Comment: 42 pages; thoroughly revised version, including a simpler definition of the geometry with parallel curvature determined by a geometry with parallel skew-symmetric torsion, and an appendix discussing 3-(\alpha,\delta)-Sasakian structures in our framework

We study generalized Killing spinors on the standard sphere $\mathbb{S}^3$, which turn out to be related to Lagrangian embeddings in the nearly Kähler manifold $S^3 \times S^3$ and to great circle flows on $\mathbb{S}^3$. Using our methods we generalize a well known result of Gluck and Gu [6] concerning divergence-free geodesic vector fields on the sphere and we show that the space of Lagrangian submanifolds of $S^3 \times S^3$ has at least three connected components., Oberwolfach Preprints;2014,11

We introduce the notion of even Clifford structures on Riemannian manifolds, a framework generalizing almost Hermitian and quaternion-Hermitian geometries. We give the complete classification of manifolds carrying parallel even Clifford structures: K\"ahler, quaternion-K\"ahler and Riemannian products of quaternion-K\"ahler manifolds, several classes of 8-dimensional manifolds, families of real, complex and quaternionic Grassmannians, as well as Rosenfeld's elliptic projective planes, which are symmetric spaces associated to the exceptional simple Lie groups. As an application, we classify all Riemannian manifolds whose metric is bundle-like along the curvature constancy distribution, generalizing well-known results in Sasakian and 3-Sasakian geometry., Comment: Final version, 28 pages

We describe and to some extent characterize a new family of K\"ahler spin manifolds admitting non-trivial imaginary K\"ahlerian Killing spinors., Comment: 23 pages, no figure

We prove that compact quaternionic-K\"ahler manifolds of positive scalar curvature admit no almost complex structure, even in the weak sense, except for the complex Grassmannians $Gr_2(C^{n+2})$. We also prove that irreducible inner symmetric spaces $M^{4n}$ of compact type are not weakly complex, except for spheres and Hermitian symmetric spaces., Comment: the related manuscript arXiv:1006.2457 was merged into this new version

We study the space of nearly Kahler structures on compact 6-dimensional manifolds. In particular, we prove that the space of infinitesimal deformations of a strictly nearly Kahler structure (with scalar curvature scal) modulo the group of diffeomorphisms, is isomorphic to the space of primitive co-closed (1,1)-eigenforms of the Laplace operator for the eigenvalue 2scal/5.

We show that Killing tensors on conformally flat $n$-dimensional tori whose conformal factor only depends on one variable, are polynomials in the metric and in the Killing vector fields. In other words, every first integral of the geodesic flow polynomial in the momenta on the sphere bundle of such a torus is linear in the momenta., 8 pages

We introduce an appropriate formalism in order to study conformal Killing (symmetric) tensors on Riemannian manifolds. We reprove in a simple way some known results in the field and obtain several new results, like the classification of conformal Killing $2$-tensors on Riemannian products of compact manifolds, Weitzenb\"ock formulas leading to non-existence results, and construct various examples of manifolds with conformal Killing tensors., Comment: 29 pages; the statement and the proof of Theorem 5.1 have been corrected

Killing forms on Riemannian manifolds are differential forms whose covariant derivative is totally skew-symmetric. We prove that on a compact manifold with holonomy G 2 or Spin 7 any Killing form has to be parallel. The main tool is a universal Weitzenbock formula. We show, how such a formula can be obtained for any given holonomy group and any representation defining a vector bundle.

We study the Lie algebra of infinitesimal isometries on compact Sasakian and K--contact manifolds. On a Sasakian manifold which is not a space form or 3--Sasakian, every Killing vector field is an infinitesimal automorphism of the Sasakian structure. For a manifold with K--contact structure, we prove that there exists a Killing vector field of constant length which is not an infinitesimal automorphism of the structure if and only if the manifold is obtained from the Konishi bundle of a compact pseudo--Riemannian quaternion--Kaehler manifold after changing the sign of the metric on a maximal negative distribution. We also prove that non--regular Sasakian manifolds are not homogeneous and construct examples with cohomogeneity one. Using these results we obtain in the last section the classification of all homogeneous Sasakian manifolds.

In this note, we consider the Dirac operator $D$ on a Riemannian symmetric space $M$ of noncompact type. Using representation theory we show that $D$ has point spectrum iff the $\hat A$-genus of its compact dual does not vanish. In this case, if $M$ is irreducible then $M = U(p,q)/U(p) \times U(q)$ with $p+q$ odd, and $Spec_p(D) = \{0\}$., Comment: amstex, 8 pages

In this note, we look at estimates for the scalar curvatureof a Riemannian manifold M which are related to spin c Dirac operators: We show that one may not enlarge a Kahler metric with positive Ricci curvature without makingsmaller somewhere on M. We also give explicit upper bounds for minfor arbitrary Riemannian metrics on certain submanifolds of complex projective space. In certain cases, these estimates are sharp: we give examples where equality is obtained.

In this paper we complete the classification of spin manifolds admitting parallel spinors, in terms of the Riemannian holonomy groups. More precisely, we show that on a given n-dimensional Riemannian manifold, spin structures with parallel spinors are in one to one correspondence with lifts to Spin_n of the Riemannian holonomy group, with fixed points on the spin representation space. In particular, we obtain the first examples of compact manifolds with two different spin structures carrying parallel spinors., 10 pages, LaTeX2e

We consider the Dirac operator on compact quaternionic Kahler manifolds and prove a lower bound for the spectrum. This estimate is sharp since it is the first eigenvalue of the Dirac operator on the quaternionic projective space.

We study twistor forms on products of compact Riemannian manifolds and show that they are defined by Killing forms on the factors. The main result of this note is a necessary step in the classification of compact Riemannian manifolds with non-generic holonomy carrying twistor forms., Comment: 5 pages

In [17] we proved a lower bound for the spectrum of the Dirac operator on quaternionic Kahler manifolds. In the present article we study the limiting case, i.e. manifolds where the lower bound is attained as an eigenvalue. We give an equivalent formulation in terms of a quaternionic Killing equation and show that the only symmetric quaternionic Kahler manifolds with smallest possible eigenvalue are the quaternionic projective spaces.

We study generalized Killing spinors on round spheres $\mathbb{S}^n$. We show that on the standard sphere $\mathbb{S}^8$ any generalized Killing spinor has to be an ordinary Killing spinor. Moreover we classify generalized Killing spinors on $\mathbb{S}^n$ whose associated symmetric endomorphism has at most two eigenvalues and recover in particular Agricola--Friedrich's canonical spinor on 3-Sasakian manifolds of dimension 7. Finally we show that it is not possible to deform Killing spinors on standard spheres into genuine generalized Killing spinors., 16 pages; new version filling a gap in the proof of Lemma 4.1 which was brought to our attention by Stanislav Wiechmann

We study generalized Killing spinors on compact Einstein manifolds with positive scalar curvature. This problem is related to the existence compact Einstein hypersurfaces in manifolds with parallel spinors, or equivalently, in Riemannian products of flat spaces, Calabi-Yau, hyperkaehler, G_2 and Spin(7) manifolds., 17 pages; new version including the 2-dimensional case and several stylistical improvements

A nearly parallel G 2 -structure on a seven-dimensional Riemannian manifold is equivalent to a spin structure with a Killing spinor. We prove general results about the automorphism group of such structures and we construct new examples. We classify all nearly parallel G 2 -manifolds with large symmetry group and in particular all homogeneous nearly parallel G 2 -structures.

An almost quaternion-Hermitian structure on a Riemannian manifold $(M^{4n},g)$ is a reduction of the structure group of $M$ to $\mathrm{Sp}(n)\mathrm{Sp}(1)\subset \mathrm{SO}(4n)$. In this paper we show that a compact simply connected homogeneous almost quaternion-Hermitian manifold of non-vanishing Euler characteristic is either a Wolf space, or $\mathbb{S}^2\times \mathbb{S}^2$, or the complex quadric $\mathrm{SO}(7)/\mathrm{U}(3)$., published version, references updated

In this paper Kahlerian Killing spinors on manifolds of complex dimensionm=4l+3 are constructed. The construction is based on a theorem which states that a closed Kahler Einstein manifold of complex dimension 4l+3 and positive scalar curvature admits a Kahlerian Killing spinor if and only if there is a complex (2l+1)-contact structure. In particular, any complex contact structure in the usual sense gives rise to such a generalized contact structure. Using this, new examples of Kahlerian Killing spinors are obtained.

We give criteria for real, complex and quaternionic representations to define $s$-representations, focusing on exceptional Lie algebras defined by spin representations. As applications, we obtain the classification of complex representations whose second exterior power is irreducible or has an irreducible summand of co-dimension one, and we give a conceptual computation-free argument for the construction of the exceptional Lie algebras of compact type., Oberwolfach Preprints;2012,03

We complete our recent classification of compact inner symmetric spaces with weakly complex tangent bundle by filling up a case which was left open, and extend this classification to the larger category of compact homogeneous spaces with positive Euler characteristic. We show that a simply connected compact equal rank homogeneous space has weakly complex tangent bundle if and only if it is a product of compact equal rank homogeneous spaces which either carry an invariant almost complex structure (and are classified by Hermann), or have stably trivial tangent bundle (and are classified by Singhof and Wemmer), or belong to an explicit list of weakly complex spaces which have neither stably trivial tangent bundle, nor carry invariant almost complex structures., 16 pages

We study the infinitesimal deformations of a proper nearly parallel G_2-structure and prove that they are characterized by a certain first order differential equation. In particular we show that the space of infinitesimal deformations modulo the group of diffeomorphisms is isomorphic to a subspace of co-closed $\Lambda^3_{27}$-eigenforms of the Laplace operator for the eigenvalue 8 scal/21. We give a similar description for the space of infinitesimal Einstein deformations of a fixed nearly parallel G_2-structure. Moreover we show that there are no deformations on the squashed S^7 and on SO(5)/SO(3), but that there are infinitesimal deformations on the Aloff-Wallach manifold N(1,1) = SU(3)/U(1)., Comment: 34 pages

The moduli space NK of infinitesimal deformations of a nearly K\"ahler structure on a compact 6-dimensional manifold is described by a certain eigenspace of the Laplace operator acting on co-closed primitive (1,1) forms. Using the Hermitian Laplace operator and some representation theory, we compute the space NK on all 6-dimensional homogeneous nearly K\"ahler manifolds. It turns out that the nearly K\"ahler structure is rigid except for the flag manifold F(1,2)=SU_3/T^2, which carries an 8-dimensional moduli space of infinitesimal nearly K\"ahler deformations, modeled on the Lie algebra su_3 of the isometry group., Comment: 23 pages

In this article we give a unified treatment of the construction of all possible Weitzenb\"ock formulas for all irreducible, non--symmetric holonomy groups. The resulting classification is two--fold, we construct explicitly a basis of the space of Weitzenb\"ock formulas on the one hand and characterize Weitzenb\"ock formulas as eigenvectors for an explicitly known matrix on the other. Both classifications allow us to find tailor--suit Weitzenb\"ock formulas for applications like eigenvalue estimates or Betti number estimates., Comment: 48 pages

We study 6-dimensional nearly Kähler manifolds admitting a Killing vector field of unit length. In the compact case, it is shown that up to a finite cover there is only one geometry possible, that of the 3-symmetric space S3 × S3.

Conformal Killing forms are a natural generalization of conformal vector fields on Riemannian manifolds. They are defined as sections in the kernel of a conformally invariant first order differential operator. We show the existence of conformal Killing forms on nearly Kaehler and weak G_2-manifolds. Moreover, we give a complete description of special conformal Killing forms. A further result is a sharp upper bound on the dimension of the space of conformal Killing forms., 24 pages

In this article we discuss a peculiar interplay between the representation theory of the holonomy group of a Riemannian manifold, the Weitzenbformula for the Hodge-Laplace operator on forms and the Lichnerowicz formula for twisted Dirac op- erators. For quaternionic Kahler manifolds this leads to simple proofs of eigenvalue estimates for Dirac and Laplace operators. Moreover, it enables us to determine which representations can contribute to harmonic forms. As a corollary we prove the vanish- ing of certain odd Betti numbers on compact quaternionic Kahler manifolds of negative scalar curvature. We simplify the proofs of several related results in the positive case.

We show that every Killing p-form on a compact quaternion-K\"ahler manifold has to be parallel for p greater than 1., Comment: erratum included

A supermanifold M is canonically associated to any pseudo Riemannian spin manifold (M_0,g_0). Extending the metric g_0 to a field g of bilinear forms g(p) on T_p M, p\in M_0, the pseudo Riemannian supergeometry of (M,g) is formulated as G-structure on M, where G is a supergroup with even part G_0\cong Spin(k,l); (k,l) the signature of (M_0,g_0). Killing vector fields on (M,g) are, by definition, infinitesimal automorphisms of this G-structure. For every spinor field s there exists a corresponding odd vector field X_s on M. Our main result is that X_s is a Killing vector field on (M,g) if and only if s is a twistor spinor. In particular, any Killing spinor s defines a Killing vector field X_s., 14 pages, latex, one typo corrected

We describe extrinsic hyperspheres and totally geodesic hypersurfaces in manifolds with special holonomy. In particular we prove the nonexistence of extrinsic hyperspheres in quaternion-Kaehler manifolds. We develop a new approach to extrinsic hyperspheres based on the classification of special Killing forms., Comment: published version

International audience; We give a characterization {\sl \`a la Obata} for certain families of K\"ahler manifolds. These results are in the same line as other extensions of the well-known Obata's rigidity theorem from \cite{Obata62}, like for instance the generalizations in \cite{RanjSant97} and \cite{Santhanam07}. Moreover, we give a complete description of the so-called K\"ahler doubly-warped product structures whose underlying metric is Einstein.