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We study the Dirac spectrum on compact Riemannian spin manifolds $M$ equipped with a metric connection $\nabla$ with skew torsion $T\in\Lambda^3 M$ in the situation where the tangent bundle splits under the holonomy of $\nabla$ and the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-11-06 Ilka Agricola , Hwajeong Kim

On a compact globally hyperbolic Lorentzian spin manifold with smooth spacelike Cauchy boundary the (hyperbolic) Dirac operator is known to be Fredholm when Atiyah-Patodi-Singer boundary conditions are imposed. In this paper we investigate…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-17 Christian Baer , Sebastian Hannes

This paper is devoted to mathematical and physical properties of the Dirac operator and spectral geometry. Spin-structures in Lorentzian and Riemannian manifolds, and the global theory of the Dirac operator, are first analyzed. Elliptic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Giampiero Esposito

We prove a lower estimate for the first eigenvalue of the Dirac operator on a compact locally reducible Riemannian spin manifold with positive scalar curvature. We determine also the universal covers of the manifolds on which the smallest…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bogdan Alexandrov

For spin manifolds with boundary we consider Riemannian metrics which are product near the boundary and are such that the corresponding Dirac operator is invertible when half-infinite cylinders are attached at the boundary. The main result…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-06-19 Mattias Dahl , Nadine Große

We prove that on a compact $n$-dimensional spin manifold admitting a non-trivial harmonic 1-form of constant length, every eigenvalue $\lambda$ of the Dirac operator satisfies the inequality $\lambda^2 \geq \frac{n-1}{4(n-2)}\inf_M Scal$.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-01-08 Andrei Moroianu , Liviu Ornea

We study some similarities between almost product Riemannian structures and almost Hermitian structures. Inspired by the similarities, we prove lower eigenvalue estimates for the Dirac operator on compact Riemannian spin manifolds with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Eui Chul Kim

We investigate the spectrum of the Dirac operator with infinite mass boundary conditions posed in a tubular neighborhood of a smooth compact hypersurface in $\mathbb{R}^n$ without boundary. We prove that when the tubular neighborhood…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Vladimir Lotoreichik , Thomas Ourmières-Bonafos

We give a min-max characterization of the weighted Dirac eigenvalues, and show that the weighted eigenvalues and eigenspaces of Dirac operators are continuous with respect to weak $L^p$ convergence of the inverse weight, for any $p>n$.…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Zixuan Qiu , Ruijun Wu

We show that the eigenvalues of the intrinsic Dirac operator on the boundary of a Euclidean domain can be obtained as the limits of eigenvalues of Euclidean Dirac operators, either in the domain with a MIT-bag type boundary condition or in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-06-23 Andrei Moroianu , Thomas Ourmières-Bonafos , Konstantin Pankrashkin

In this paper, we establish a new eigenvalue estimate for the Kohn-Dirac operator on a compact CR manifold. The equality case of this estimate is characterized by the existence of a CR twistor spinor. We then classify CR manifolds carrying…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-31 Georges Habib , Felipe Leitner

We establish a vanishing result for indices of certain twisted Dirac operators on $\text{Spin}^c$-manifolds with non-abelian Lie-group actions. We apply this result to study non-abelian symmetries of quasitoric manifolds. We give upper…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Michael Wiemeler

In [10], Dabrowski etc. gave spectral Einstein bilinear functionals of differential forms for the Hodge-Dirac operator $d+\delta$ on an oriented even-dimensional Riemannian manifold. In this paper, we generalize the results of Dabrowski…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-15 Tong Wu , Yong Wang

We exploit the connection between quantum dot Dirac operators and $\overline\partial$-Robin Laplacians. First, we find a graphical relation between their smallest positive eigenvalues, which allows us to deduce a recipe for translating…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Joaquim Duran

In this paper, we get estimates on the higher eigenvalues of the Dirac operator on locally reducible Riemannian manifolds, in terms of the eigenvalues of the Laplace-Beltrami operator and the scalar curvature. These estimates are sharp, in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Yongfa Chen

We investigate the quantum motion of a neutral Dirac particle bouncing on a mirror in curved spacetime. We consider different geometries: Rindler, Kasner-Taub and Schwarzschild, and show how to solve the Dirac equation by using geometrical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Nicolas Boulanger , Fabien Buisseret , Philippe Spindel

We study the spectrum of the Dirac operator $D$ on pseudo-Riemannian spin manifolds of signature $(p,q)$, considered as an unbounded operator in the Hilbert space $L^2_\xi(S)$. The definition of $L^2_\xi(S)$ involves the choice of a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-14 Momsen Reincke

For a compact spin manifold $M$ isometrically embedded into Euclidean space, we derive the extrinsic estimates from above and below for eigenvalues of the Dirac operators, which depend on the second fundamental form of the embedding. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Daguang Chen

In this article, we study the spectrum of the magnetic Dirac operator, and the magnetic Dirac operator with potential over complete Riemannian manifolds. We find sufficient conditions on the potentials as well as the manifold so that the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-25 Nelia Charalambous , Nadine Große