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Initial data rigidity via Dirac-Witten operators

Differential Geometry 2023-04-06 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

In this paper we prove an initial data rigidity result \`a la Eichmair, Galloway and Mendes (arXiv:2009.09527) using Dirac operator techniques. It applies to initial data sets on spin bands that satisfy the dominant energy condition, a boundary condition for the future null expansion scalar and the A^\hat{A}-obstruction for positive scalar curvature on one of the boundary pieces. Interestingly, these bands turn out to carry lightlike imaginary WW-Killing spinors, which are connected to Lorentzian special holonomy and moduli spaces of Ricci-flat metrics. We also obtain slight generalizations of known rigidity results on Riemannian bands.

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@article{arxiv.2304.02331,
  title  = {Initial data rigidity via Dirac-Witten operators},
  author = {Jonathan Glöckle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.02331},
  year   = {2023}
}

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