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Mass endomorphism, surgery and perturbations

Differential Geometry 2015-10-28 v2

Abstract

We prove that the mass endomorphism associated to the Dirac operator on a Riemannian manifold is non-zero for generic Riemannian metrics. The proof involves a study of the mass endomorphism under surgery, its behavior near metrics with harmonic spinors, and analytic perturbation arguments.

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@article{arxiv.1009.5618,
  title  = {Mass endomorphism, surgery and perturbations},
  author = {Bernd Ammann and Mattias Dahl and Andreas Hermann and Emmanuel Humbert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.5618},
  year   = {2015}
}
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