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We study differential operators on complete Riemannian manifolds which act on sections of a bundle of finite type modules over a von Neumann algebra with a trace. We prove a relative index and a Callias-type index theorems for von Neumann…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-02-23 Maxim Braverman , Simone Cecchini

In this paper, we study Pizzetti-type formulas for Stiefel manifolds and Cauchy-type formulas for the tangential Dirac operator from a distributional perspective. First we illustrate a general distributional method for integration over…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-04-24 Alí Guzmán Adán , Frank Sommen

A construction of a pseudo-differential operator on non-archimedean local fields invariant under a finite group action is given together with the solution of the corresponding Cauchy problem. This construction is applied to parts of the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-07 Patrick Erik Bradley

An equality between the spectral flow of a family $A$ of self-adjoint Fredholm operators and the index of the associated differential operator $\frac{d}{dt}-iA$ with Atiyah-Patodi-Singer-style boundary conditions is shown. This generalizes…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-16 Lennart Ronge

We investigate the spectral and index-theoretic properties of the Hodge-Dirac operator $D = \mathrm{d} + \mathrm{d}^*$ acting on the Banach space $\mathrm{L}^p(\Omega^\bullet(M))$ of differential forms over a compact Riemannian manifold…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Cédric Arhancet

It is well known that elliptic operators on a smooth compact manifold are classified by K-homology. We prove that a similar classification is also valid for manifolds with simplest singularities: isolated conical points and fibered…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 A. Savin

We prove some formulas relating Cauchy-Riemann operators defined on hypercomplex subspaces of an alternative *-algebra to a differential operator associated with the concept of slice-regularity and to the spherical Dirac operator. These…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2022-07-22 Alessandro Perotti

We study the spectrum of the Dirac operator $D$ on pseudo-Riemannian spin manifolds of signature $(p,q)$, considered as an unbounded operator in the Hilbert space $L^2_\xi(S)$. The definition of $L^2_\xi(S)$ involves the choice of a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-14 Momsen Reincke

We show that the computation of the Fredholm index of a fully elliptic pseudodifferential operator on an integrated Lie manifold can be reduced to the computation of the index of a Dirac operator, perturbed by a smoothing operator,…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2022-04-20 Karsten Bohlen , Jean-Marie Lescure

We prove a new upper bound for the first eigenvalue of the Dirac operator of a compact hypersurface in any Riemannian spin manifold carrying a non-trivial twistor spinor without zeros on the hypersurface. The upper bound is expressed as the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Nicolas Ginoux , Georges Habib , Simon Raulot

It is shown that the class of Fredholm operators over an arbitrary unital $C^{*}$--algebra, which may not admit adjoint ones, can be extended in such a way that this class of compact operators, used in the definition of the class of…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Anwar A. Irmatov , Alexandr S. Mishchenko

We study the behavior of the spectrum of the Dirac operator on degenerating families of compact Riemannian surfaces, when the length $t$ of a simple closed geodesic shrinks to zero, under the hypothesis that the spin structure along the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Cipriana Anghel

We investigate the evaluation of the Dirac index using symplectic geometry in the loop space of the corresponding supersymmetric quantum mechanical model. In particular, we find that if we impose a simple first class constraint, we can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 A. Hietamaki , A. J. Niemi

Motivated by Wigner's theorem, a canonical construction is described that produces an Atiyah-Singer Dirac operator with both unitary and anti-unitary symmetries. This Dirac operator includes the Dirac operator for KR-theory as a special…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2021-09-15 Simon Kitson

This work constitutes the second part of a series of studies that aim to utilise tools from Hamiltonian mechanics to investigate the motion of an extended body in general relativity. The first part of this work [Refs. [1, 2]] constructed a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-11 Paul Ramond , Soichiro Isoyama

We consider supersymmetric quantum mechanical systems in arbitrary dimensions on curved spaces with nontrivial gauge fields. The square of the Dirac operator serves as Hamiltonian. We derive a relation between the number of supercharges…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Kirchberg , J. D. Laenge , A. Wipf

We discuss the well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for hyperbolic operators with double characteristics which changes from non-effectively hyperbolic to effectively hyperbolic, on the double characteristic manifold, across a submanifold of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-29 Tatsuo Nishitani

A version of Arzel\`a-Ascoli theorem for $X$ being $\sigma$-locally compact Hausdorff space is proved. The result is used in proving compactness of Fredholm, Hammerstein and Urysohn operators. Two fixed point theorems, for Hammerstein and…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-12 Mateusz Krukowski , Bogdan Przeradzki

We consider the Klein-Gordon equation on a class of Lorentzian manifolds with Cauchy surface of bounded geometry, which is shown to include examples such as exterior Kerr, Kerr-de Sitter and Kerr-Kruskal spacetimes. In this setup, we give…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Christian Gérard , Omar Oulghazi , Michal Wrochna

We consider a complete Riemannian manifold, which consists of a compact interior and one or more $\varphi$-cusps: infinitely long ends of a type that includes cylindrical ends and hyperbolic cusps. Here $\varphi$ is a function of the radial…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-04-21 Peter Hochs , Hang Wang