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Conformal rescaling of a parallel spinor to a twistor spinor (ϵ=Ω1/2ϵ0​)

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In the conformal frame for g=Ω2η, identify the spinor fibres using the chosen vierbein. If ϵ0​ is a flat constant spinor field, the spin connection of a conformally flat metric gives ∇a​ϵ=γ​a​γ​c(∂c​logΩ)ϵ/2. Contracting with curved γa=Ω−1γ​a yields γa∇a​ϵ=nΩ−1γ​c(∂c​logΩ)ϵ/2. Thus ∇a​ϵ=γa​γb∇b​ϵ/n: the rescaled parallel spinor is a twistor spinor.

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