Generalised Spin${}^r$ Structures on Homogeneous Spaces

Abstract

Spinorial methods have proven to be a powerful tool to study geometric properties of spin manifolds. Our aim is to continue the spinorial study of manifolds that are not necessarily spin. We introduce and study the notion of $G$-invariance of spin${}^r$ structures on a manifold $M$ equipped with an action of a Lie group $G$. For the case when $M$ is a homogeneous $G$-space, we prove a classification result of these invariant structures in terms of the isotropy representation. As an example, we study the invariant spin${}^r$ structures for all the homogeneous realisations of the spheres.

Revised version, published in Differential Geometry and its Applications