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We study the existence of left-invariant harmonic spinors on three-dimensional Lie groups equipped with a left-invariant pseudo-Riemannian metric. An existing formula for the spin Dirac operator acting on left-invariant spinors in the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Alejandro Gil-García , Giovanni Russo

The "spin-up" and "spin-down" projections of the second order, chiral form of Dirac Theory are shown to fit a superposition of forms predicted in an earlier classical, complex scalar gauge theory (April, 1992 Class. Quantum Grav.). In some…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-30 J. E. Rankin

In this paper we consider the Hilbert-Einstein-Dirac functional, whose critical points are pairs, metrics-spinors, that satisfy a system coupling the Riemannian and the spinorial part. Under some assumptions, on the sign of the scalar…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-29 Ali Maalaoui , Vittorio Martino

By an explicit construction, it is shown that the geometry of the SU(3) pion multiplet with respect to the group manifold SU_L(3) x SU_R(3) maybe deformed to admit a second pseudoscalar multiplet that is analogous to the Z_0 in unified…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-08-27 S. James Gates, , Lubna Rana

We look at smooth manifolds equipped with a possibly singular Riemannian metric. We give sufficient conditions for the existence of scalar curvature measures and Dirac operators.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-24 John Lott

Eigenvalue estimate for the Dirac-Witten operator is given on bounded domains (with smooth boundary) of spacelike hypersurfaces satisfying the dominant energy condition, under four natural boundary conditions (MIT, APS, modified APS, and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Daniel Maerten

In this paper, we give a new lower bound for the eigenvalues of the Dirac operator on a compact spin manifold. This estimate is motivated by the fact that in its limiting case a skew-symmetric tensor (see Equation \eqref{eq:16}) appears…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Georges Habib

Let $M$ be a closed orientable hypersurface of dimension $n$, with nonwhere vanishing mean curvature $H$, immersed into a Riemannian Spin$^c$ manifold $\mathcal Z$ carrying a parallel spinor field. The first eigenvalue…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Roger Nakad

We study the behavior of the spectrum of the Dirac operator together with a symmetric $W^{1, \infty}$-potential on spin manifolds under a collapse of codimension one with bounded sectional curvature and diameter. If there is an induced spin…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2017-08-15 Saskia Roos

In this paper we study eigenvalues of the closed eigenvalue problem of the Witten-Laplacian on an $n$-dimensional compact Riemannian manifold. Estimates for eigenvalues are given. As applications, we give a sharp upper bound for the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-08 Qing-Ming Cheng , Lingzhong Zeng

It has been recently shown that the eigenvalues of the Dirac operator can be considered as dynamical variables of Euclidean gravity. The purpose of this paper is to explore the possiblity that the eigenvalues of the Dirac operator might…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 I. V. Vancea

We utilize the eigenvalue filtering technique combined with the stochastic estimate of the mode number to determine the eigenvalue spectrum. Simulations of (2 + 1)-flavor QCD are performed using the Highly Improved Staggered Quarks…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-01-16 Heng-Tong Ding , Olaf Kaczmarek , Frithjof Karsch , Sheng-Tai Li , Swagato Mukherjee , Akio Tomiya , Yu Zhang

It is well-known that 7-dimensional 3-Sasakian manifolds carry a one-parametric family of compatible G_2 structures and that they do not admit a characteristic connection. In this note, we show that there is nevertheless a distinguished…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Ilka Agricola , Thomas Friedrich

For a bounded domain $\Omega$ with a piecewise smooth boundary in a complete Riemannian manifold $M$, we study eigenvalues of the Dirichlet eigenvalue problem of the Laplacian. By making use of a fact that eigenfunctions form an orthonormal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-04-27 Qing-Ming Cheng , Xuerong Qi

We prove a Feynman-Kac formula for differential forms satisfying absolute boundary conditions on Riemannian manifolds with boundary and of bounded geometry. We use this to construct $L^2$ harmonic forms out of bounded ones on the universal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-16 Levi Lopes de Lima

We analyze the eigenvalue problem for the semiclassical Dirac (or Zakharov-Shabat) operator on the real line with general analytic potential. We provide Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization conditions near energy levels where the potential exhibits…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Koki Hirota , Jens Wittsten

The aim of this paper is to classify compact, simply connected K\"ahler manifolds which admit J-invariant Killing tensor with two eigenvalues of multiplicity 2 and n-2 and with constant eigenvalue corresponding to 2-dimensional…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-12-19 Włodzimierz Jelonek

Embedding of Klein-Gordon and Dirac particle onto Riemannian submanifold in higher dimensional Minkowski space is given by using Hamiltonian BRST formalism. Up to the ordering and quantum potential term induced by embedding, obtained K-G…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Naohisa Ogawa

We generalize previous work on Dirac eigenvalues as dynamical variables of Euclidean supergravity. The most general set of constraints on the curvatures of the tangent bundle and on the spinor bundle of the spacetime manifold under which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Ciuhu , I. V. Vancea

Let $(M_i, g_i)_{i \in \mathbb{N}}$ be a sequence of spin manifolds with uniform bounded curvature and diameter that converges to a lower dimensional Riemannian manifold $(B,h)$ in the Gromov-Hausdorff topology. Lott showed that the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-05-08 Saskia Roos