Killing spinors and hypersurfaces

Abstract

We consider spin manifolds with an Einstein metric, either Riemannian or indefinite, for which there exists a Killing spinor. We describe the intrinsic geometry of nondegenerate hypersurfaces in terms of a PDE satisfied by a pair of induced spinors, akin to the generalized Killing spinor equation. Conversely, we prove an embedding result for real analytic pseudo-Riemannian manifolds carrying a pair of spinors satisfying this condition.