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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

We study the minimization problem for eigenvalues of the Dirac operator within a fixed conformal class on a closed spin Riemannian manifold. We establish a criterion for the existence of a minimizer for this variational problem, focusing…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Pavel Martynyuk

Let G be a compact connected semisimple Lie group and let H\subset G be a closed connected subgroup such that rank(G)=rank(H) and G/H is a symmetric space. Given an irreducible representation of H, we define a Dirac operator D and determine…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2010-08-27 Emiko Dupont

A universal lower bound for the first positive eigenvalue of the Dirac operator on a compact quaternionic Kaehler manifold M of positive scalar curvature is calculated. It is shown that it is equal to the first positive eigenvalue on the…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Wolfram Kramer

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 prove new lower bounds for the first eigenvalue of the Dirac operator on compact manifolds whose Weyl tensor or curvature tensor, respectively, is divergence free. In the special case of Einstein manifolds, we obtain estimates depending…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-07 Thomas Friedrich , Klaus-Dieter Kirchberg

We compare the eigenvalues of the Dirac and Laplace operator on a two-dimensional torus with respect to the trivial spin structure. In particular, we compute their variation up to order 4 upon deformation of the flat metric, study the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ilka Agricola , Bernd Ammann , Thomas Friedrich

Consider $\mathbb{R}^3$ equipped with the Euclidean metric and the Gaussian measure. Let $\Sigma$ be a complete embedded self-shrinker in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with the induced metric and weighted measure, and let $\lambda_1$ denote the first…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Elham Matinpour

Let $(M,g,\si)$ be a compact Riemannian spin manifold of dimension $\geq 2$. For any metric $\tilde g$ conformal to $g$, we denote by $\tilde\lambda$ the first positive eigenvalue of the Dirac operator on $(M,\tilde g,\si)$. We show that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-06-26 Bernd Ammann , Jean-Francois Grosjean , Emmanuel Humbert , Bertrand Morel

We investigate the second Dirac eigenvalue on Riemannian manifolds admitting a Killing spinor. In small dimensions the whole Dirac spectrum depends on special eigenvalues on functions and 1-forms. We compute and discuss the formulas in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-04-06 Thomas Friedrich

Equivariant indices have previously been defined in cases where either the group or the orbit space in question is compact. In this paper, we develop an equivariant index without assuming the group or the orbit space to be compact. This…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Peter Hochs , Yanli Song

In a previous paper we proved a lower bound for the spectrum of the Dirac operator on quaternionic Kaehler manifolds. In the present article we show that the only manifolds in the limit case, i.e. the only manifolds where the lower bound is…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2009-10-30 W. Kramer , U. Semmelmann , G. Weingart

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

This paper is devoted to a general min-max characterization of the eigenvalues in a gap of the essential spectrum of a self-adjoint unbounded operator. We prove an abstract theorem, then we apply it to the case of Dirac operators with a…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2022-06-14 Jean Dolbeault , Maria J. Esteban , Eric Séré

In this paper, we get estimates on the higher eigenvalues of the Dirac operator on locally reducible Riemannian manifolds, in terms of the eigenvalues of the Laplace-Beltrami operator and the scalar curvature. These estimates are sharp, in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Yongfa Chen

We define an equivariant index of Spin$^c$-Dirac operators on possibly noncompact manifolds, acted on by compact, connected Lie groups. The main result in this paper is that the index decomposes into irreducible representations according to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-10-18 Peter Hochs , Yanli Song

We numerically find out the spectrum of the $3$ spin $1$ Dirac operators found in~\cite{ApbPP}. We give an analytic and numerical proof that they are unitarily inequivalent. Since these operators come paired with an anticommuting chirality…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-08-16 Sanatan Digal , Pramod Padmanabhan

We study the behavior of the spectrum of the Dirac operator on collapsing S^1-bundles. Convergent eigenvalues will exist if and only if the spin structure is projectable.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bernd Ammann

We establish a lower bound for the eigenvalues of the Dirac operator defined on a compact K\"ahler-Einstein manifold of positive scalar curvature and endowed with particular ${\rm spin}^c$ structures. The limiting case is characterized by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-07-15 Roger Nakad , Mihaela Pilca

It has recently been conjectured that the eigenvalues $\lambda$ of the Dirac operator on a closed Riemannian spin manifold $M$ of dimension $n\ge 3$ can be estimated from below by the total scalar curvature: $$ \lambda^2 \ge…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-31 Bernd Ammann , Christian Baer