Rigidity Results for manifolds with foliated boundary

25.06.2015, 16:15 Uhr  –  Neues Palais, Haus 9, Raum 2.06
Forschungsseminar Differentialgeometrie

Georges Habib (Lebanese University)

In this talk, we consider a compact Riemannian manifold whose boundary is endowed with a Riemannian flow. Under a suitable curvature assumption depending on the O'Neill tensor of the flow, we prove that any solution of the basic Dirac equation is the restriction of a parallel spinor field defined on the whole manifold. As a consequence we show that the flow is a local product. In particular, in the case where solutions of the basic Dirac equation are given by basic Killing spinors, we characterize the geometry of the manifold and the flow.

(Joint work with F. El Chami, N. Ginoux, R. Nakad)