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Let $\Gamma$ be a finitely generated discrete group acting properly and cocompactly on a smooth manifold M. By employing heat-kernel techniques we prove a geometric formula for the pairing of the index class associated to a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Paolo Piazza , Hessel Posthuma , Yanli Song , Xiang Tang

We construct eta- and rho-invariants for Dirac operators, on the universal covering of a closed manifold, that are invariant under the projective action associated to a 2-cocycle of the fundamental group. We prove an Atiyah-Patodi-Singer…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-04-16 Sara Azzali , Charlotte Wahl

In this paper we study Clifford and harmonic analysis on some conformal flat spin manifolds. In particular we treat manifolds that can be parametrized by $U / \Gamma$ where $U$ is a simply connected subdomain of either $S^{n}$ or $R^{n}$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Rolf Soeren Krausshar , John Ryan

We establish global existence and derive sharp pointwise decay estimates of solutions to cubic Dirac and Dirac-Klein-Gordon systems on a curved background, close to the Minkowski spacetime. By squaring the Dirac operator, we reduce the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Seokchang Hong

Let $\Gamma$ be a finitely generated discrete group satisfying the rapid decay condition. We give a new proof of the higher Atiyah-Patodi-Singer theorem on a Galois $\Gamma$-coverings, thus providing an explicit formula for the higher index…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-01-21 Alexander Gorokhovsky , Hitoshi Moriyoshi , Paolo Piazza

We study Dirac operators on resolutions of Riemannian orbifolds by developing a uniform elliptic theory. The key idea is to view orbifolds as conically fibred singular (CFS) spaces and resolve them by gluing asymptotically conical…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Viktor F. Majewski

In his book Mickelsson notices that the infinite-dimensional Grassmannian manifold of Segal and Wilson admits a Spin^c structure and after this he naturally considers the problem of defining a Dirac operator on it. Mickelsson gives a…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2010-07-27 Vesa Tahtinen

We provide a comprehensive lattice formulation of various types of the Dirac operator indices, employing $K$-theory to classify the Wilson Dirac operator via its spectral flow. In contrast to the index of the overlap Dirac operator defined…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-02-27 Shoto Aoki , Hajime Fujita , Hidenori Fukaya , Mikio Furuta , Shinichiroh Matsuo , Tetsuya Onogi , Satoshi Yamaguchi

We provide Fredholm conditions for compatible differential operators on certain Lie manifolds (that is, on certain possibly non-compact manifolds with nice ends). We discuss in more detail the case of manifolds with cylindrical, hyperbolic,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-14 Ivan Beschastnyi , Catarina Carvalho , Victor Nistor , Yu Qiao

This is an expository paper which gives a proof of the Atiyah-Singer index theorem for elliptic operators. Specifcally, we compute the geometric K-cycle that corresponds to the analytic K-cycle determined by the operator. This paper and its…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-21 Paul Baum , Erik van Erp

Vanishing of the Fefferman-Graham obstruction tensor was used by Andersson and Chru{\'s}ciel to show stability of the asymptotically de Sitter spaces in even dimensions. However, existing proofs of hyperbolicity of this equation contain…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-02 Wojciech Kamiński

We consider the index problem for a wide class of nonlocal elliptic operators on a smooth closed manifold, namely differential operators with shifts induced by the action of an isometric diffeomorphism. The key to the solution is the method…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-01 Anton Savin , Elmar Schrohe , Boris Sternin

We prove that the Atiyah-Singer Dirac operator ${\mathrm D}_{\mathrm g}$ in ${\mathrm L}^2$ depends Riesz continuously on ${\mathrm L}^{\infty}$ perturbations of complete metrics ${\mathrm g}$ on a smooth manifold. The Lipschitz bound for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-04 Lashi Bandara , Alan McIntosh , Andreas Rosén

We study realizations of pseudodifferential operators acting on sections of vector-bundles on a smooth, compact manifold with boundary, subject to conditions of Atiyah-Patodi-Singer type. Ellipticity and Fredholm property, compositions,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-17 U. Battisti , J. Seiler

We show that elliptic complexes of (pseudo)differential operators on smooth compact manifolds with boundary can always be complemented to a Fredholm problem by boundary conditions involving global pseudodifferential projections on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-29 B. -W. Schulze , J. Seiler

It is shown that there are nonlinear sigma models which are Darboux integrable and possess a solvable Vessiot group in addition to those whose Vessiot groups are central extensions of semi-simple Lie groups. They govern harmonic maps…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-04-02 Jeanne N. Clelland , Peter J. Vassiliou

We give a local integral formula, valid on general curved space-times, for the characteristic Cauchy problem for the Dirac equation with arbitrary spin using the method developed by Friedlander in his book "the wave equation on a curved…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-18 Jérémie Joudioux

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

We show that the Wilson Dirac operator in lattice gauge theory can be identified as a mathematical object in $K$-theory and that its associated spectral flow is equal to the index. In comparison to the standard lattice Dirac operator index,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-08 Shoto Aoki , Hidenori Fukaya , Mikio Furuta , Shinichiroh Matsuo , Tetsuya Onogi , Satoshi Yamaguchi

We discuss the interplay between topologically non-trivial gauge field configurations and the spectrum of the Wilson-Dirac operator in lattice gauge theory. Our analysis is based on analytic arguments and numerical results from a lattice…

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