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The aim of this paper is to study the existence of eigenvalues in the gap of the essential spectrum of the one-dimensional Dirac operator in the presence of a bounded potential. We employ a generalized variational principle to prove…

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A closed spin K\"ahler manifold of positive scalar curvature with smallest possible first eigenvalue of the Dirac operator is characterized by holomorphic spinors. It is shown that on any spin K\"ahler-Einstein manifold each holomorphic…

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We introduce partial secondary invariants associated to complete Riemannian metrics which have uniformly positive scalar curvature outside a prescribed subset on a spin manifold. These can be used to distinguish such Riemannian metrics up…

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The Dirac equation with both scalar and vector couplings describing the dynamics of a two-dimensional Dirac oscillator in the cosmic string spacetime is considered. We derive the Dirac-Pauli equation and solve it in the limit of the spin…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-18 Daniel F. Lima , Fabiano M. Andrade , Luis B. Castro , Cleverson Filgueiras , Edilberto O. Silva

In the present article we have found the complete energy spectrum and the corresponding eigenfunctions of the Dirac oscillator in two spatial dimensions. We show that the energy spectrum depends on the spin of the Dirac particle.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Victor M. Villalba

Let $M$ be a closed connected spin manifold. Index theory provides a topological lower bound on the dimension of the kernel of the Dirac operator which depends on the choice of Riemannian metric. Riemannian metrics for which this bound is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Bernd Ammann , Mattias Dahl

In this paper, we give an optimal lower bound for the eigenvalues of the basic Dirac operator on a quaternion-Kahler foliation. The limiting case is characterized by the existence of quaternion-Kahler Killing spinors. We end this paper by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-07-03 Georges Habib

We consider a Riemannian spin manifold (M,g) with a fixed spin structure. The zero sets of solutions of generalized Dirac equations on M play an important role in some questions arising in conformal spin geometry and in mathematical…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-08-08 Andreas Hermann

We solve the Killing spinor equations and determine the near horizon geometries of M-theory that preserve at least one supersymmetry. The M-horizon spatial sections are 9-dimensional manifolds with a Spin(7) structure restricted by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 J. Gutowski , G. Papadopoulos

The problem of a fermion subject to a general scalar potential in a two-dimensional world is mapped into a Sturm-Liouville problem for nonzero eigenenergies. The searching for possible bounded solutions is done in the circumstance of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Antonio S. de Castro

We study boundary value problems for the Dirac operator on Riemannian Spin$^c$ manifolds of bounded geometry and with noncompact boundary. This generalizes a part of the theory of boundary value problems by C. B\"ar and W. Ballmann for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-05-17 Nadine Große , Roger Nakad

We revisit the eigenvalue problem of the Dirichlet Laplacian on bounded domains in complete Riemannian manifolds. By building on classical results like Li-Yau's and Yang's inequalities, we derive upper and lower bounds for eigenvalues. For…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Daguang Chen , Qing-Ming Cheng

A certified strategy for determining sharp intervals of enclosure for the eigenvalues of matrix differential operators with singular coefficients is examined. The strategy relies on computing the second order spectrum relative to subspaces…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-17 Lyonell Boulton , Monika Winklmeier

We approximate the spectral data (eigenvalues and eigenfunctions) of compact Riemannian manifold by the spectral data of a sequence of (computable) discrete Laplace operators associated to some graphs immersed in the manifold. We give an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-01-17 Erwann Aubry

It is shown that the eigenvalue problem for the hermitian Wilson-Dirac operator of for a uniform magnetic field in two dimensions can be reduced to one-dimensional problem described by a relativistic analog of the Harper equation. An…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Kurokawa , T. Fujiwara

In this note we generalize the methods of [1][2][3] to 5-dimensional Riemannian manifolds M. We study the relations between the geometry of M and the number of solutions to a generalized Killing spinor equation obtained from a 5-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Yiwen Pan

We consider Dirac-type operators on manifolds with boundary, and set out to determine all local smooth boundary conditions that give rise to (strongly) regular self-adjoint operators. By combining the general theory of boundary value…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Nadine Große , Alejandro Uribe , Hanne van den Bosch

We give results about the L^2 kernel and the spectrum of the Dirac operator on a complete Riemannian manifold which is conformally equivalent to the interior of a Riemannian manifold with nonempty boundary.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 John Lott

We review some recent results concerning lower eigenvalues estimates for the Dirac operator [6, 7]. We show that Friedrich's inequality can be improved via certain well-chosen symmetric tensors and provide an application to Sasakian spin…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-09-09 Eui Chul Kim

The so-called Dirac oscillator was proposed as a modification of the free Dirac equation which reproduces many of the properties of the simple harmonic oscillator but accompanied by a strong spin-orbit coupling term. It has yet to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-19 C. R. Hagen