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A Kato-Yau inequality for harmonic spinors and decay estimate for eigenspinors

Differential Geometry 2016-04-08 v4 Mathematical Physics Analysis of PDEs math.MP

Abstract

We show that harmonic spinors obey a strengthened version of the well-known pointwise Kato inequality for sections of a vector bundle with a connection. We then prove a decay estimate for eigenspinors using this Kato-Yau estimate and resulting differential inequality. We briefly describe some applications to gauge theory---specifically to integral estimates which are used when gluing and ungluing PU(2) monopoles (math.DG/9907107).

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@article{arxiv.math/9903021,
  title  = {A Kato-Yau inequality for harmonic spinors and decay estimate for eigenspinors},
  author = {Paul M. N. Feehan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/9903021},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

19 pages, Latex 2e. The article has been revised for publication. Journal of Geometric Analysis, to appear