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This work is concerned with the Dirac points for the honeycomb lattice with impenetrable obstacles arranged periodically in a homogeneous medium. We consider both the Dirichlet and Neumann eigenvalue problems and prove the existence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-27 Wei Li , Junshan Lin , Hai Zhang

A generalized two-dimensional periodic Dirac operator is considered, with $L^{\infty}$-matrix-valued coefficients of the first order derivatives and with complex matrix-valued potential. It is proved that if the matrix-valued potential has…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. I. Danilov

We prove stability results associated with upper bounds for the first eigenvalue of certain second order differential operators of divergence-type on hypersurfaces of the Euclidean space. We deduce some applications to $r$-stability as well…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-27 Julien Roth , Julian Scheuer

In a series of papers, we will develop systematically the basic spectral theory of (self-adjoint) boundary value problems for operators of Dirac type. We begin in this paper with the characterization of (self-adjoint) boundary conditions…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jochen Brüning , Matthias Lesch

On a n-dimensional connected compact manifold with non-empty boundary equipped with a Riemannian metric, a spin structure and a chirality operator, we study some properties of a spin conformal invariant defined from the first eigenvalue of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-03-10 Simon Raulot

Ricci-Curbastro established necessary and sufficient conditions for a Riemannian metric on a surface to be the first fundamental form of a minimal immersion of that surface into the Euclidean space. We revisit certain developments arising…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-18 Lucas Ambrozio

The emergence of trapped surfaces in solutions to the Einstein field equations is intimately tied to the well-posedness properties of the corresponding Cauchy problem in the low regularity regime. In this paper, we study the question of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-21 Jonathan Luk , Georgios Moschidis

We analyze the initial value problem for spinor fields obeying the Dirac equation, with particular attention to the characteristic surfaces. The standard Cauchy initial value problem for first order differential equations is to construct a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Ovid C. Jacob , Ronald J. Adler

In this paper we study global-in-time, weighted Strichartz estimates for the Dirac equation on warped product spaces in dimension $n\geq3$. In particular, we prove estimates for the dynamics restricted to eigenspaces of the Dirac operator…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-25 Jonathan Ben-Artzi , Federico Cacciafesta , Anne-Sophie de Suzzoni , Junyong Zhang

We consider modifications of the classical dbar-Neumann conditions that define Fredholm problems for the Spin_C Dirac operator. In part II, we use boundary layer methods to obtain subelliptic estimates for these boundary value problems.…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Charles L Epstein

We establish the regularity theory for certain critical elliptic systems with an anti-symmetric structure under inhomogeneous Neumann and Dirichlet boundary constraints. As applications, we prove full regularity and smooth estimates at the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-11-20 Ben Sharp , Miaomiao Zhu

We generalize the Donsker-Varadhan minimax formula for the principal eigenvalue of a uniformly elliptic operator in nondivergence form to the first principal half-eigenvalue of a fully nonlinear operator which is concave (or convex) and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-06-19 Scott N. Armstrong

We derive integral and sup-estimates for the curvature of stably marginally outer trapped surfaces in a sliced space-time. The estimates bound the shear of a marginally outer trapped surface in terms of the intrinsic and extrinsic curvature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Lars Andersson , Jan Metzger

We construct Dirac operators on foliations by applying the Bismut-Lebeau analytic localization technique to the Connes fibration over a foliation. The Laplacian of the resulting Dirac operators has better lower bound than that obtained by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-02-13 Weiping Zhang

We establish lower bounds for the first non-zero eigenvalue for the natural geometric sub-elliptic Laplacian operator defined on sub-Riemannian manifolds of step 2 that satisfy a positive curvature condition. The methods are very general…

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We prove regularity for a class of boundary value problems for first order elliptic systems, with boundary conditions determined by spectral decompositions, under coefficient differentiability conditions weaker than previously known. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 P. T. Chrusciel , R. Bartnik

The problem of self-adjoint extensions of Dirac-type operators in manifolds with boundaries is analysed. The boundaries might be regular or non-regular. The latter situation includes point-like interactions, also called delta-like…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-05-29 J. M. Pérez-Pardo

In this paper we prove an initial data rigidity result \`a la Eichmair, Galloway and Mendes (arXiv:2009.09527) using Dirac operator techniques. It applies to initial data sets on spin bands that satisfy the dominant energy condition, a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-04-06 Jonathan Glöckle

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 derive sharp bounds for three types of eigenvalue problems. First, we derive an upper bound for the first $p$-Dirichlet eigenvalue on conformally compact (CC) spaces. As a consequence, we show that for a class of CC submanifolds of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Samuel Pérez-Ayala