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We compute the spectrum of the Dirac operator on 3-dimensional Heisenberg manifolds. The behavior under collapse to the 2-torus is studied. Depending on the spin structure either all eigenvalues tend to $\pm\infty$ or there are eigenvalues…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bernd Ammann , Christian Baer

We study a new set of coupled field equations motivated by the non-linear supersymmetric sigma model of quantum field theory. These equations couple a map into a Riemannian manifold controlled by a harmonic map like action with a spinor…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Qun Chen , Juergen Jost , Guofang Wang , Jiayu Li

We characterise regions in the complex plane that contain all non-embedded eigenvalues of a perturbed periodic Dirac operator on the real line with real-valued periodic potential and a generally non-symmetric matrix-valued perturbation V .…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-17 Ghada Shuker Jameel , Karl Michael Schmidt

It has recently been conjectured that the eigenvalues $\lambda$ of the Dirac operator on a closed Riemannian spin manifold $M$ of dimension $n\ge 3$ can be estimated from below by the total scalar curvature: $$ \lambda^2 \ge…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-31 Bernd Ammann , Christian Baer

We consider conformal immersions $f: T^2\rightarrow \mathbb{R}^3$ with the property that $H^2 f^*g_{\mathbb{R}^3}$ is a flat metric. These so called Dirac tori have the property that its Willmore energy is uniformly distributed over the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-10-18 Lynn Heller

We obtain new lower bounds for the first non-zero eigenvalue of the scalar sub-Laplacian for 3-Sasaki metrics, improving Lichnerowicz-Obata type estimates by Ivanov et al. The limiting eigenspace is fully decribed in terms of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Paul-Andi Nagy , Uwe Semmelmann

In this article we develope a spinorial proof of the Shi-Tam theorem for the positivity of the Brown-York mass without necessity of building non smooth infinite asymptotically flat hypersurfaces in the Euclidean space and use the positivity…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-05 S. Montiel

In this paper the conformal Dirac operator on the sphere is defined to be operating on the space of square-integrable Clifford algebra-valued functions. The spinorial Laplacian of order d>0 is defined and used to establish Sobolev embedding…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Brett Pansano

For a homotopy class $[u]$ of maps between a closed Riemannian manifold $M$ and a general manifold $N$, we want to find a Dirac-harmonic map with the map component in the given homotopy class. Most known results require the index to be…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Jürgen Jost , Linlin Sun , Jingyong Zhu

We give a lower bound for the eigenvalues of the Dirac operator on a compact domain of a Riemannian spin manifold under the $\MIT$ bag boundary condition. The limiting case is characterized by the existence of an imaginary Killing spinor.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Simon Raulot

We show that in any harmonic space, the eigenvalue spectra of the Laplace operator on small geodesic spheres around a given point determine the norm $|\nabla R|$ of the covariant derivative of the Riemannian curvature tensor in that point.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-03-29 Teresa Arias-Marco , Dorothee Schueth

A generalized relativistic harmonic oscillator for spin 1/2 particles is studied. The Dirac Hamiltonian contains a scalar $S$ and a vector $V$ quadratic potentials in the radial coordinate, as well as a tensor potential $U$ linear in $r$.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Lisboa , M. Malheiro , A. S. de Castro , P. Alberto , M. Fiolhais

In this article we analyze the spectral properties of the curl operator on closed Riemannian 3-manifolds. Specifically, we study metrics that are optimal in the sense that they minimize the first curl eigenvalue among any other metric of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Alberto Enciso , Wadim Gerner , Daniel Peralta-Salas

It is well-known that a compact Riemannian spin manifold can be reconstructed from its canonical spectral triple which consists of the algebra of smooth functions, the Hilbert space of square integrable spinors and the Dirac operator. It…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-11-09 Christian Baer

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 aim of the present paper is to introduce the notion of first order (supersymmetric) Dirac operators on discrete and metric (``quantum'') graphs. In order to cover all self-adjoint boundary conditions for the associated metric graph…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2007-09-03 Olaf Post

A perturbation decaying to 0 at infinity and not too irregular at 0 introduces at most a discrete set of eigenvalues into the spectral gaps of a one-dimensional Dirac operator on the half-line. We show that the number of these eigenvalues…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Karl Michael Schmidt

We review some recent results concerning lower eigenvalues estimates for the Dirac operator [6, 7]. We show that Friedrich's inequality can be improved via certain well-chosen symmetric tensors and provide an application to Sasakian spin…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-09-09 Eui Chul Kim

We give examples of spin $4$-manifolds with boundary $(M,\partial M)$ such that the boundary $\partial M$ has a positive scalar curvature metric which cannot be extended to a positive scalar curvature metric on $M$ with mean convex…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Steven Rosenberg , Daniel Ruberman , Jie Xu

We study the minimizers of the sum of the principal Dirichlet eigenvalue of the negative Laplacian and the perimeter with respect to a general norm in the class of Jordan domains in the plane. This is equivalent (modulo scaling) to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-06 Marek Biskup , Eviatar B. Procaccia