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We consider the classical Dirac operator on globally hyperbolic manifolds with timelike boundary and show well-posedness of the Cauchy initial-boundary value problem coupled to APS-boundary conditions. This is achieved by deriving suitable…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Nicolò Drago , Nadine Große , Simone Murro

Index theory for Lorentzian Dirac operators is a young subject with significant differences to elliptic index theory. It is based on microlocal analysis instead of standard elliptic theory and one of the main features is that a nontrivial…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-17 Christian Baer , Alexander Strohmaier

On a compact globally hyperbolic Lorentzian spin manifold with smooth spacelike Cauchy boundary the (hyperbolic) Dirac operator is known to be Fredholm when Atiyah-Patodi-Singer boundary conditions are imposed. In this paper we investigate…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-17 Christian Baer , Sebastian Hannes

We present an introduction to boundary value problems for Dirac-type operators on complete Riemannian manifolds with compact boundary. We introduce a very general class of boundary conditions which contains local elliptic boundary…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-02 Christian Baer , Werner Ballmann

We show that the Dirac operator on a compact globally hyperbolic Lorentzian spacetime with spacelike Cauchy boundary is a Fredholm operator if appropriate boundary conditions are imposed. We prove that the index of this operator is given by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-10-01 Christian Baer , Alexander Strohmaier

Let $M$ be a globally hyperbolic manifold with complete spacelike Cauchy hypersurface $\Sigma \subset M$. Building on past and recent works of B\"ar and Strohmaier, we extend their Fredholm result of the Atiyah-Singer Dirac operator on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-20 Orville Damaschke

We consider the Dirac operator on asymptotically static Lorentzian manifolds with an odd-dimensional compact Cauchy surface. We prove that if Atiyah-Patodi-Singer boundary conditions are imposed at infinite times then the Dirac operator is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-02-08 Dawei Shen , Michał Wrochna

We consider the Dirac operator on globally hyperbolic manifolds with timelike boundary and show well-posedness of the Cauchy initial-boundary value problem coupled to MIT-boundary conditions. This is achieved by transforming the problem…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-24 Nadine Große , Simone Murro

On a smooth complete Riemannian spin manifold with smooth compact boundary, we demonstrate that the Atiyah-Singer Dirac operator $\mathrm{D}_{\mathcal B}$ in $\mathrm{L}^{2}$ depends Riesz continuously on $\mathrm{L}^{\infty}$ perturbations…

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

We study an example of an index problem for a Dirac-like operator subject to Atiyah-Patodi-Singer boundary conditions on a noncommutative manifold with boundary, namely the quantum unit disk.

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2009-01-05 Alan L. Carey , Slawomir Klimek , Krzysztof P. Wojciechowski

We define a noncommutative space we call the quantum solid torus. It is an example of a noncommutative manifold with a noncommutative boundary. We study quantum Dirac type operators subject to Atiyah-Patodi-Singer like boundary conditions…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2016-11-09 Slawomir Klimek , Matt McBride

Under two boundary conditions, the generalized Atiyah-Patodi-Singer boundary condition and the modified generalized -Atiyah-Patodi-Singer boundary condition, we get the lower bounds for the eigenvalues of the fundamental Dirac operator on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Daguang Chen

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

Ellipticity of boundary value problems is characterized in terms of the Calderon projector. The presence of topological obstructions for the chiral Dirac operator under local boundary conditions in even dimension is discussed. Functional…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 H. Falomir

We consider Dirac-type operators on manifolds with boundary, and set out to determine all local smooth boundary conditions that give rise to (strongly) regular self-adjoint operators. By combining the general theory of boundary value…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Nadine Große , Alejandro Uribe , Hanne van den Bosch

We study a Dirac operator subject to Atiayh-Patodi-Singer like boundary conditions on the solid torus and show that the corresponding boundary value problem is elliptic, in the sense that the Dirac operator has a compact parametrix.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Slawomir Klimek , Matt McBride

The Atiyah-Singer index theorem on a closed manifold is well understood and appreciated in physics. On the other hand, the Atiyah-Patodi-Singer index, which is an extension to a manifold with boundary, is physicist-unfriendly, in that it is…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-12-22 Hidenori Fukaya

Functional determinants for Dirac operators on manifolds with boundary are considered. Ellipticity of boundary value problems is discussed in terms of the Calderon projector. The functional determinant for a Dirac operator on a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Falomir

We study the Dirac operator on a finite warped cylinder coupled to a background $U(1)$ gauge field. We identify the intrinsic endpoint operators defining the Atiyah-Patodi-Singer (APS) boundary condition and derive a determinant…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Taro Kimura , Sanchita Sharma

We study functional determinants for Dirac operators on manifolds with boundary and discuss the ellipticity of boundary problems by using the Calder\'on projector. We give, for local boundary conditions, an explicit formula relating these…

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