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Witten spinors on nonspin manifolds

Differential Geometry 2013-09-26 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Motivated by Witten's spinor proof of the positive mass theorem, we analyze asymptotically constant harmonic spinors on complete asymptotically flat nonspin manifolds with nonnegative scalar curvature.

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@article{arxiv.1112.0194,
  title  = {Witten spinors on nonspin manifolds},
  author = {Anda Degeratu and Mark Stern},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1112.0194},
  year   = {2013}
}

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revised version; aceepted in Communications in Mathematical Physics

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