Sasakian manifolds and spin-c Killing spinors

Abstract

Using the theory of complex spinorial forms, we prove that an odd-dimensional Riemannian manifold admits a pure spin-c Killing spinor with a real Killing constant $α\in\mathbb{R}^{\ast}$ if and only if it is $α$-Sasakian, thereby obtaining an extension of a well-known result by A. Moroianu that, under the purity assumption, does not require simple connectivity or completeness.