Riemannian parallel-spinor Ricci-flatness

ID: riemannian-parallel-spinor-ricci-flatness

A parallel spinor has zero spin curvature. Contracting the spinorial Ricci identity with a gamma matrix gives . For each fixed , squaring Clifford multiplication by that Ricci row gives . Riemannian positivity and a nonzero spinor force every row to vanish. This implication is local and does not itself require compactness; the compact hypothesis is used to obtain parallelism from harmonicity.

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