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The Dirac operator under collapse to a smooth limit space

Spectral Theory 2019-05-08 v2

Abstract

Let (Mi,gi)iN(M_i, g_i)_{i \in \mathbb{N}} be a sequence of spin manifolds with uniform bounded curvature and diameter that converges to a lower dimensional Riemannian manifold (B,h)(B,h) in the Gromov-Hausdorff topology. Lott showed that the spectrum converges to the spectrum of a certain first order elliptic differential operator D\mathcal{D} on BB. In this article we give an explicit description of DB\mathcal{D}^B. We conclude that DB\mathcal{D}^B is self-adjoint and characterize the special case where DB\mathcal{D}^B is the Dirac operator on BB.

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@article{arxiv.1802.00630,
  title  = {The Dirac operator under collapse to a smooth limit space},
  author = {Saskia Roos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.00630},
  year   = {2019}
}

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37 pages, comments are welcome

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