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Inhomogeneous chiral phase is discussed in the presence of the magnetic field. A topological aspect is pointed out for the complex order parameter, in relation to the spectral asymmetry of the Dirac operator. It induces an anomalous baryon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 T. Tatsumi , K. Nishiyama , S. Karasawa

A signature independent formalism is created and utilized to determine the general second-order symmetry operators for Dirac's equation on two-dimensional Lorentzian spin manifolds. The formalism is used to characterize the orthonormal…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-06-16 Alberto Carignano , Lorenzo Fatibene , Raymond G. McLenaghan , Giovanni Rastelli

The geometry of antisymmetric fields with nontrivial transitions over a base manifold is described in terms of exact sequences of cohomology groups. This formulation leads naturally to the appearance of nontrivial topological charges…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 M. I. Caicedo , I. Martin , A. Restuccia

Every Dirac spin structure on a world manifold is associated with a certain gravitational field, and is not preserved under general covariant transformations. We construct a composite spinor bundle such that any Dirac spin structure is its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 G. Sardanashvily

In this note, we prove lower and upper bounds for Dirac operators of submanifolds in certain ambient manifolds in terms of conformal and extrinsic quantities.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-18 Qun Chen , Linlin Sun

The basic first-order differential operators of spin geometry that are Dirac operator and twistor operator are considered. Special types of spinors defined from these operators such as twistor spinors and Killing spinors are discussed.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-09-11 Ümit Ertem

This work reconsiders the holomorphic and anti-holomorphic Dirac operators of Hermitian Clifford analysis to determine whether or not they are the natural generalization of the orthogonal Dirac operator to spaces with complex structure. We…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2016-11-02 Stuart Shirrell , Raymond Walter

Causal fermion systems and Riemannian fermion systems are proposed as a framework for describing non-smooth geometries. In particular, this framework provides a setting for spinors on singular spaces. The underlying topological structures…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-05-06 Felix Finster , Niky Kamran

The Dirac equation in the external Coulomb field is proved to possess the symmetry determined by the 31 operators, which form the 31-dimensional algebra. Two different fermionic realizations of the SO(1,3) algebra of the Lorentz group are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Volodimir Simulik

We revisit the problem of determining the zero modes of the Dirac operator on the Eguchi-Hanson space. It is well known that there are no normalisable zero modes, but such zero modes do appear when the Dirac operator is twisted by a $U(1)$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-18 Guido Franchetti , Kirill Krasnov

In this article we study the existence of solutions for the Dirac systems \begin{equation}\label{e:0.1} \left\{ \begin{array}{c} Pu=\frac{\partial H}{\partial v}(x,u,v) \quad\hbox{on} \ M, Pv=\frac{\partial H}{\partial u}(x,u,v)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-01 Xu Yang , Xin Li

Anomalous Hall effect arising from the noncoplanar spin configuration (chirality) is discussed as a probe of the chiral order in spin glasses. It is shown that the Hall coefficient yields direct information about the linear and nonlinear…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 Hikaru Kawamura

We give a survey of results relating the restricted holonomy of a Riemannian spin manifold with lower bounds on the spectrum of its Dirac operator, giving a new proof of a result originally due to Kirchberg.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-11-12 Marcos Jardim , Rafael F. Leao

The Hochschild and cyclic homology groups are computed for the algebra of `cusp' pseudodifferential operators on any compact manifold with boundary. The index functional for this algebra is interpreted as a Hochschild 1-cocycle and…

funct-an · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Richard B. Melrose , Victor Nistor

We consider modified Weyl gravity where a Dirac spinor field is nonminimally coupled to gravity. It is assumed that such modified gravity is some approximation for the description of quantum gravitational effects related to the gravitating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-18 Vladimir Dzhunushaliev , Vladimir Folomeev

Properties of the Cauchy-Riemann-Fueter equation for maps between quaternionic manifolds are studied. Spaces of solutions in case of maps from a K3-surface to the cotangent bundle of a complex projective space are computed. A relationship…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-05-30 Andriy Haydys

We consider the heat-kernel on a manifold whose boundary is piecewise smooth. The set of independent geometrical quantities required to construct an expression for the contribution of the boundary discontinuities to the C_{2} heat-kernel…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 J. S. Apps , J. S. Dowker

An intrinsic mass generation mechanism for exotic ELKO dark matter fields is scrutinized, in the context of the very special relativity (VSR). Our results are reported on unraveling inequivalent spin structures that educe an additional term…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-10-08 Alex E. Bernardini , Roldao da Rocha

We consider on a spin manifold with boundary a Dirac operator $D_A$ with chiral boundary conditions, twisted by a unitary connection $A$. When $m$ is not in the chiral spectrum of $D_A$, we define an analogue of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Carlos Valero

Quaternionic and octonionic spinors are introduced and their fundamental properties (such as the space-times supporting them) are reviewed. The conditions for the existence of their associated Dirac equations are analyzed. Quaternionic and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Francesco Toppan