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Killing Forms on Symmetric Spaces

Florin Belgun, Andrei Moroianu, Uwe Semmelmann

math.DGarXiv:math/0409104

Abstract

Killing forms on Riemannian manifolds are differential forms whose covariant derivative is totally skew--symmetric. We show that a compact simply connected symmetric space carries a non--parallel Killing p--form (p2) if and only if it isometric to a Riemannian product Sk× N, where Sk is a round sphere and k>p.

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