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Using Weitzenb\"ock techniques on any compact Riemannian spin manifold we derive inequalities that involve a real parameter and join the eigenvalues of the Dirac operator with curvature terms. The discussion of these inequalities yields…

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The aim of this paper is to study the existence of eigenvalues in the gap of the essential spectrum of the one-dimensional Dirac operator in the presence of a bounded potential. We employ a generalized variational principle to prove…

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We show that the eigenvalues of the intrinsic Dirac operator on the boundary of a Euclidean domain can be obtained as the limits of eigenvalues of Euclidean Dirac operators, either in the domain with a MIT-bag type boundary condition or in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-06-23 Andrei Moroianu , Thomas Ourmières-Bonafos , Konstantin Pankrashkin

In this paper, we prove the invariance of the spectrum of the basic Dirac operator defined on a Riemannian foliation $(M,\mathcal{F})$ with respect to a change of bundle-like metric. We then establish new estimates for its eigenvalues on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Georges Habib , Ken Richardson

We make a spectral analysis of the massive Dirac operator in a tubular neighborhood of an unbounded planar curve,subject to infinite mass boundary conditions. Under general assumptions on the curvature, we locate the essential spectrum and…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-04-14 William Borrelli , Philippe Briet , David Krejcirik , Thomas Ourmieres-Bonafos

We examine spectra of Dirac operators on compact hyperbolic surfaces. Particular attention is devoted to symmetry considerations, leading to non-trivial multiplicities of eigenvalues. The relation to spectra of Maass-Laplace operators is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jens Bolte , Hans-Michael Stiepan

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

In this paper, we consider a problem for the first order Dirac differential equations system with spectral parameter dependent in boundary condition. The asymptotic behaviors of eigenvalues, eigenfunctions and normalizing numbers of this…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2014-04-02 Kh. R. Mamedov , O. Akcay

The Dirac operator is considered on a bidimensional domain whose boundary carries the infinite mass boundary condition. The analysis is focused on the existence of discrete spectrum and on its asymptotic description in the thin width limit.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 Loïc Le Treust , Thomas Ourmières-Bonafos , Nicolas Raymond

In this paper, we study a singular perturbation of a problem used in dimension two to model graphene or in dimension three to describe the quark confinement phenomenon in hadrons. The operators we consider are of the form $H + M\beta V…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-09-10 Badreddine Benhellal

In this article we present the first results on domain decomposition methods for nonlocal operators. We present a nonlocal variational formulation for these operators and establish the well-posedness of associated boundary value problems,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Burak Aksoylu , Michael L. Parks

We exploit the connection between quantum dot Dirac operators and $\overline\partial$-Robin Laplacians. First, we find a graphical relation between their smallest positive eigenvalues, which allows us to deduce a recipe for translating…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Joaquim Duran

In this work we study Dirac operators on two-dimensional domains coupled to a magnetic field perpendicular to the plane. We focus on the infinite-mass boundary condition (also called MIT bag condition). In the case of bounded domains, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-05 Jean-Marie Barbaroux , Loïc Le Treust , Nicolas Raymond , Edgardo Stockmeyer

This work addresses Faber-Krahn-type inequalities for quantum dot Dirac operators with nonnegative mass on bounded domains in $\mathbb{R}^2$. We show that this family of inequalities is equivalent to a family of Faber-Krahn-type…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Joaquim Duran , Albert Mas , Tomás Sanz-Perela

We extend several classical eigenvalue estimates for Dirac operators on compact manifolds to noncompact, even incomplete manifolds. This includes Friedrich's estimate for manifolds with positive scalar curvature as well as the author's…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-07-16 Christian Baer

In this note we present some properties of the Dirac operator on noncompact metric graphs with Kirchoff-type vertex conditions. In particular, we discuss the specific features of the spectrum of the operator and, finally, we give some…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-08 William Borrelli , Raffaele Carlone , Lorenzo Tentarelli

In this article, we consider the Dirac operator with constant magnetic field in $\mathbb R^2$. Its spectrum consists of eigenvalues of infinite multiplicities, known as the Landau-Dirac levels. Under compactly supported perturbations, we…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Vincent Bruneau , Pablo Miranda

In this paper, we consider a discontinuous Dirac operator depending polynomially on the spectral parameter and a finite number of transmission conditions. We get some properties of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions. Then, we investigate some…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-01-21 Yalçın Güldü , Merve Arslantaş

We consider the Dirac operator on right triangles, subject to infinite-mass boundary conditions. We conjecture that the lowest positive eigenvalue is minimised by the isosceles right triangle both under the area or perimeter constraints. We…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-04-12 Tuyen Vu

We carry the index theory for manifolds with boundary of B\"ar and Ballmann over to first order differential operators on metric graphs. This approach results in a short proof for the index of such operators. Then the self-adjoint…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-20 Alberto Richtsfeld