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For a Dirac operator $D_{\bar{g}}$ over a spin compact Riemannian manifold with boundary $(\bar{X},\bar{g})$, we give a natural construction of the Calder\'on projector and of the associated Bergman projector on the space of harmonic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-09-17 Colin Guillarmou , Sergiu Moroianu , Jinsung Park

We study the question of existence of a Riemannian metric of positive scalar curvature metric on manifolds with the Sullivan-Baas singularities. The manifolds we consider are Spin and simply connected. We prove an analogue of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Boris Botvinnik

We use the manifestly conformally invariant description of a Lorentzian conformal structure in terms of a parabolic Cartan geometry in order to introduce a superalgebra structure on the space of twistor spinors and normal conformal vector…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-22 Andree Lischewski

Let (M,g) be a compact Riemannian spin manifold. The Atiyah-Singer index theorem yields a lower bound for the dimension of the kernel of the Dirac operator. We prove that this bound can be attained by changing the Riemannian metric g on an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-03 Bernd Ammann , Mattias Dahl , Emmanuel Humbert

The Dirac operator for a manifold Q, and its chirality operator when Q is even dimensional, have a central role in noncommutative geometry. We systematically develop the theory of this operator when Q=G/H, where G and H are compact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 A. P. Balachandran , Giorgio Immirzi , Joohan Lee , Peter Presnajder

In this paper, we consider a general twisted-curved space-time hosting Dirac spinors and we take into account the Lorentz covariant polar decomposition of the Dirac spinor field: the corresponding decomposition of the Dirac spinor field…

General Physics · Physics 2018-12-06 Luca Fabbri

We extend the notion of "coupling with a foliation" from Poisson to Dirac structures and get the corresponding generalization of the Vorobiev characterization of coupling Poisson structures. We show that any Dirac structure is coupling with…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Izu Vaisman

A vector field on a Riemannian manifold is called conformal Killing if it generates one-parameter group of conformal transformations. The class of conformal Killing symmetric tensor fields of an arbitrary rank is a natural generalization of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-03-21 Nurlan S. Dairbekov , Vladimir A. Sharafutdinov

We construct a 2+1 dimensional classical gauge theory on manifolds with spin structure whose action is a refinement of the Atiyah-Patodi- Singer eta-invariant for twisted Dirac operators. We investigate the properties of the Lagrangian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jerome A. Jenquin

The present note deals with the properties of metric connections $\nabla$ with vectorial torsion $V$ on semi-Riemannian manifolds $(M^n,g)$. We show that the $\nabla$-curvature is symmetric if and only if $V^{\flat}$ is closed, and that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-01 Ilka Agricola , Margarita Kraus

Twistor forms are a natural generalization of conformal vector fields on Riemannian manifolds. They are defined as sections in the kernel of a conformally invariant first order differential operator. We study twistor forms on compact…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-01-08 Andrei Moroianu , Uwe Semmelmann

It is shown that the determinant line bundle associated to a family of Dirac operators over a closed partitioned manifold has a canonical Hermitian metric with compatible connection whose curvature satisfies an additivity formula with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Simon Scott

Motivated by the supersymmetric version of Dirac's theory, chiral models in field theory, and the quest of a geometric fundament for the Standard Model, we describe an approach to the differential geometry of vector bundles on…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Roepstorff , Ch. Vehns

In this paper, the Dirac, twistor and Killing equations on Weyl manifolds with CSpin structures are investigated. A conformal Schr"odinger-Lichnerowicz formula is presented and used to show integrability conditions for these equations. By…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Volker Buchholz

Let G be a compact, semi-simple Lie group and H a maximal rank reductive subgroup. The irreducible representations of G can be constructed as spaces of harmonic spinors with respect to a Dirac operator on the homogeneous space G/H twisted…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Gregory D. Landweber

We review the geodesic motion of pseudo-classical spinning particles in curved spaces. Investigating the generalized Killing equations for spinning spaces, we express the constants of motion in terms of Killing-Yano tensors. Passing from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Mihai Visinescu

On complete non-compact manifolds with bounded sectional curvature, we consider a class of self-adjoint Dirac-type operators called Dirac-Schr\"odinger operators. Assuming two Dirac-Schr\"odinger operators coincide at infinity, by previous…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Pengshuai Shi

We explore new aspects of internal fermionic shifting symmetries, present in physical systems such as free Dirac spinors and p-form tensor-spinor fields. We propose a novel procedure to gauge these global symmetries, which also introduces a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-07 Federico Ambrosino , Ran Luo , Yi-Nan Wang , Yi Zhang

A noncommutative-geometric generalization of the classical concept of spinor structure is presented. This is done in the framework of the formalism of quantum principal bundles. In particular, analogs of the Dirac operator and the Laplacian…

q-alg · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Mico Durdevic

We investigate the superalgebra of derivations generated by the fundamental forms on manifolds with reduced structure group. In particular, we point out a relation between the algebra of derivations of heterotic geometries that admit…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-01 G. Papadopoulos