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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 give an elementary solution of the index problem for elliptic operators associated with the shift operator along the trajectories of an isometric diffeomorphism of a closed smooth manifold. This solution is based on a reduction (which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-12-26 A. Savin , E. Schrohe , B. Sternin

We study functional determinants for Dirac operators on manifolds with boundary. We give, for local boundary conditions, an explicit formula relating these determinants to the corresponding Green functions. We finally apply this result to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-15 H. Falomir , R. E. Gamboa Saraví , M. A. Muschietti , E. M. Santangelo , J. E. Solomin

We consider the Dirac operator of a general metric in the canonical conformal class on the noncommutative two torus, twisted by an idempotent (representing the $K$-theory class of a general noncommutative vector bundle), and derive a local…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2019-04-09 Farzad Fathizadeh , Franz Luef , Jim Tao

For a compact connected Riemannian manifold with smooth boundary, by computing the full symbol of the elastic Dirichlet-to-Neumann map, we prove that the elastic Dirichlet-to-Neumann map can uniquely determine the partial derivatives of all…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-09 Xiaoming Tan

We announce a Godbillon-Vey index formula for longitudinal Dirac operators on a foliated bundle $(X,\F)$ with boundary; in particular, we define a Godbillon-Vey eta invariant on the boundary foliation, that is, a secondary invariant for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-02-15 Hitoshi Moriyoshi , Paolo Piazza

We extend the groundbreaking results of Gromov and Lawson on positive scalar curvature and the Dirac operator on complete Riemannian manifolds to Dirac operators defined along the leaves of foliations of non-compact complete Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-26 Moulay Tahar Benameur , James L. Heitsch

We derive a transgression formula for the renormalized Chern character of the Bismut superconnection in the context of end-periodic fiber bundles and families of end-periodic Clifford modules. The transgression is expressed in terms of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Alex R. Taylor

In this paper we study Dirac-Einstein equations on manifolds with boundary, restricted to a conformal class with constant boundary volume, under chiral bag boundary conditions for the Dirac operator. We characterize the bubbling phenomenon,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-14 William Borrelli , Ali Maalaoui , Vittorio Martino

Spectral triples for nonunital algebras model locally compact spaces in noncommutative geometry. In the present text, we prove the local index formula for spectral triples over nonunital algebras, without the assumption of local units in…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2013-01-21 A. Carey , V. Gayral , A. Rennie , F. Sukochev

For manifolds including metric-contact manifolds with non-resonant Reeb ow, we prove a Gutzwiller type trace formula for the associated magnetic Dirac operator involving contributions from Reeb orbits on the base. As an application, we…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2018-11-06 Nikhil Savale

Suppose M is a compact manifold with boundary. Let N be a normal covering of M. Suppose (A,T) is an elliptic differential boundary value problem on M with lift (\tilde A,\tilde T) to N. Then the von Neumann dimension of kernel and cokernel…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-11-28 Thomas Schick

We consider the linearized electrical impedance tomography problem in two dimensions on the unit disk. By a linearization around constant coefficients and using a trigonometric basis, we calculate the linearized Dirichlet-to-Neumann…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-08 Stefan Kindermann

New extrinsic lower bounds are given for the classical Dirac operator on the boundary of a compact domain of a spin manifold. The main tool is to solve some boundary problems for the Dirac operator of the domain under boundary conditions of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Oussama Hijazi , Sebastian Montiel , Xiao Zhang

In a previous paper we have constructed an invariant of four-dimensional manifolds with boundary in the form of an element in the stable homotopy group of the Seiberg-Witten Floer spectrum of the boundary. Here we prove that when one glues…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-06-25 Ciprian Manolescu

We calculate the index of the Dirac operator defined on the q-deformed fuzzy sphere. The index of the Dirac operator is related to its net chiral zero modes and thus to the trace of the chirality operator. We show that for the q-deformed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Harikumar , Amilcar R. Queiroz , P. Teotonio-Sobrinho

We prove an asymptotic bound on the eta invariant of a family of coupled Dirac operators on an odd dimensional manifold. In the case when the manifold is the unit circle bundle of a positive line bundle over a complex manifold, we obtain…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-05 Nikhil Savale

We study the Dirac spectrum on compact Riemannian spin manifolds $M$ equipped with a metric connection $\nabla$ with skew torsion $T\in\Lambda^3M$ by means of twistor theory. An optimal lower bound for the first eigenvalue of the Dirac…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-11-05 Ilka Agricola , Julia Becker-Bender , Hwajeong Kim

We study $p$-adic manifolds associated with twisted points of quotient stacks $\mathcal{X} = [U/G]$ and their quotient spaces $\pi:\mathcal{X} \to X$. We prove several structural results about the fibres of $\pi$ and derive in particular a…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-16 Michael Groechenig , Dimitri Wyss , Paul Ziegler

We derive a number of spectral results for Dirac operators in geometrically nontrivial regions in $\mathbb{R}^2$ and $\mathbb{R}^3$ of tube or layer shapes with a zigzag type boundary using the corresponding properties of the Dirichlet…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2022-10-26 Pavel Exner , Markus Holzmann