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We study a non-commutative deformation of general relativity based on spectral invariants of a partial differential operator acting on sections of a vector bundle over a smooth manifold. We compute the first non-commutative corrections to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-17 Guglielmo Fucci , Ivan G. Avramidi

In this paper, we define the spectral Einstein functional associated with the sub-signature operator for manifolds with boundary. Motivated by the spectral Einstein functional and the sub-signature operator, we relate them to the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-11-08 Hongfeng Li , Yong Wang

Biconformal deformations take place in the presence of a conformal foliation, deforming by different factors tangent to and orthogonal to the foliation. Four-manifolds endowed with a conformal foliation by surfaces present a natural context…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-11 Paul Baird , Jade Ventura

We analyze the level sets of the norm of the Witten spinor in an asymptotically flat Riemannian spin manifold of positive scalar curvature. Level sets of small area are constructed. We prove curvature estimates which quantify that, if the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-01-28 Felix Finster

The Witten deformation associated to a Morse function on a closed Riemannian manifold, via Rellich-Kato theorem, relates analytically the spectral package of the Riemannian manifold (eigenvalues and eigenforms) to the Morse complex defined…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-11 Dan Burghelea

The spectral torsion is defined by three vector fields and Dirac operators and the noncommutative residue. Motivated by the spectral torsion and the one form rescaled Dirac operator, we give some new spectral torsion which is the extension…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Jian Wang , Yong Wang

We derive a weighted $L^2$-estimate of the Witten spinor in a complete Riemannian spin manifold $(M^n,g)$ of non-negative scalar curvature which is asymptotically Schwarzschild. The interior geometry of $M$ enters this estimate only via the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-01-28 Felix Finster , Margarita Kraus

We establish integral formulas and sharp two-sided bounds for the Ricci curvature, mean curvature and second fundamental form on a Riemannian manifold with boundary. As applications, sharp gradient and Hessian estimates are derived for the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-10 Feng-Yu Wang

In this paper, on the basis of defining the spectral Einstein functional associated with the Dirac operator for manifolds with boundary, we prove Kastler-Kalau-Walze type theorem for the spectral Einstein functional associated with the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Yuchen Yang , Tong Wu

Let (M,g) be a compact Einstein manifold with smooth boundary. We consider the spectrum of the p form valued Laplacian with respect to a suitable boundary condition. We show that certain geometric properties of the boundary may be…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 JeongHyeong Park

This paper studies the two-component spinor form of massive spin-3/2 potentials in conformally flat Einstein four-manifolds. Following earlier work in the literature, a non-vanishing cosmological constant makes it necessary to introduce a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Giampiero Esposito , Giuseppe Pollifrone

A covariant quantization of the free spinor fields (s=1/2) in 4-dimensional de Sitter (dS) space-time based on analyticity in the complexified pseudo-Riemanian manifold is presented. We define the Wigthman two-point function ${\cal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 M. V. Takook

In this undergraduate thesis, we present an analytical proof of the Morse inequalities for closed smooth $n$-manifolds following Witten's approach. Using techniques from PDE theory, the proof is reduced to study the eigenspaces and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-10-27 Fu-Hsuan Ho

A deformation of Einstein Gravity is constructed based on gauging the noncommutative ISO(3,1) group using the Seiberg-Witten map. The transformation of the star product under diffeomorphism is given, and the action is determined to second…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Ali H. Chamseddine

We compute spin $ 2 $ spectrum associated with massive graviton fluctuations in $\gamma$-deformed Gaiotto-Maldacena background those are holographically dual to marginal deformations of $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFTs in four dimensions. Under the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-16 Sourav Roychowdhury , Dibakar Roychowdhury

Motivated by Witten's spinor proof of the positive mass theorem, we analyze asymptotically constant harmonic spinors on complete asymptotically flat nonspin manifolds with nonnegative scalar curvature.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-09-26 Anda Degeratu , Mark Stern

With the help of the deformed Heisenberg algebra involving Klein operator, we construct the minimal set of linear differential equations for the (2+1)-dimensional relativistic field with arbitrary fractional spin, whose value is defined by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Mikhail S. Plyushchay

Motivated by the Landau-Ginzburg model, we study the Witten deformation on a noncompact manifold with bounded geometry, together with some tameness condition on the growth of the Morse function $f$ near infinity. We prove that the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-01 Xianzhe Dai , Junrong Yan

Discrete series Whittaker functions on $Spin(2n, 2)$ are studied. The dimensions of the space of both algebraic and continuous Whittaker models are explicitly determined. They are described by a sum of dimensions of irreducible…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2014-07-22 Kenji Taniguchi

We study the isospectral deformations of the Eguchi-Hanson spaces along a torus isometric action in the noncompact noncommutative geometry. We concentrate on locality, smoothness and summability conditions of the nonunital spectral triples,…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2009-11-13 C. Yang