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The first non-zero Laplace eigenvalue of a hyperbolic surface, or its spectral gap, measures how well-connected the surface is: surfaces with a large spectral gap are hard to cut in pieces, have a small diameter and fast mixing times. For…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Laura Monk

To a compact hyperbolic Riemann surface, we associate a finitely summable spectral triple whose underlying topological space is the limit set of a corresponding Schottky group, and whose ``Riemannian'' aspect (Hilbert space and Dirac…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Gunther Cornelissen , Matilde Marcolli

We investigate the spectrum of the spin Dirac operator on families of hyperbolic surfaces where a set of disjoint simple geodesics shrink to $0$, under the hypothesis that the spin structure is non-trivial along each pinched geodesic. The…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Rares Stan

We show a uniform spectral gap of stable commutator length for all compact hyperbolic $2$-orbifolds relative to the peripheral subgroups. Except for the case of a sphere with three cone points, we have an explicit uniform gap $1/36$. These…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Lvzhou Chen , Nicolaus Heuer

In this paper, we study the opening of a spectral gap for a class of 2-dimensional periodic Hamiltonians which include those modelling multilayer graphene. The kinetic part of the Hamiltonian is given by $\sigma \cdot F(-i\nabla)$, where…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-02-04 J. -M. Barbaroux , H. D. Cornean , S. Zalczer

For all convex co-compact hyperbolic surfaces, we prove the existence of an essential spectral gap, that is a strip beyond the unitarity axis in which the Selberg zeta function has only finitely many zeroes. We make no assumption on the…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2018-04-20 Jean Bourgain , Semyon Dyatlov

For any $\varepsilon>0$, we construct a closed hyperbolic surface of genus $g=g(\varepsilon)$ with a set of at most $\varepsilon g$ systoles that fill, meaning that each component of the complement of their union is contractible. This…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-10-08 Maxime Fortier Bourque

We address the question of determining which mapping class groups of infinite-type surfaces admit nonelementary continuous actions on hyperbolic spaces. More precisely, let $\Sigma$ be a connected, orientable surface of infinite type with…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-05-19 Camille Horbez , Yulan Qing , Kasra Rafi

We study how the spin structures on finite-volume hyperbolic n-manifolds restrict to cusps. When a cusp cross-section is a (n-1)-torus, there are essentially two possible behaviours: the spin structure is either bounding or Lie. We show…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-12-16 Bruno Martelli , Alan W. Reid

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

The Dirac operator for a manifold Q, and its chirality operator when Q is even dimensional, have a central role in noncommutative geometry. We systematically develop the theory of this operator when Q=G/H, where G and H are compact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 A. P. Balachandran , Giorgio Immirzi , Joohan Lee , Peter Presnajder

Let $\Gamma$ be a Schottky subgroup of $\mathrm{SL}_2(\mathbb{Z})$ and let $X=\Gamma\backslash \mathbb{H}^2$ be the associated hyperbolic surface. Conditional on the generalized Riemann hypothesis for quadratic $L$-functions, we establish a…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Louis Soares

We derive upper eigenvalue bounds for the Dirac operator of a closed hypersurface in a manifold with Killing spinors such as Euclidean space, spheres or hyperbolic space. The bounds involve the Willmore functional. Relations with the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Christian Baer

We show that any infinite-type surface without planar ends admits arbitrarily large families of length isospectral hyperbolic structures. If the surface has infinite genus and its space of ends is self-similar, we construct an uncountable…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-12-15 Federica Fanoni

We construct a sequence of boundary value problems on compact subsets of smooth noncompact hyperbolic surfaces of finite area. We prove that the sesquilinear forms associated to these boundary value problems are stable as well as consistent…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-21 Richard Ninness

We quantitatively relate the resonance sets of topologically finite infinite-area hyperbolic surfaces with no cusps to the resonance sets of certain metric graphs via the spine graph construction. In particular, we prove the existence of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-05-16 Henry Talbott

Consider a surface $\Sigma$ with punctures that serve as marked points and at least one marked point on each boundary component. We build a filling surface $\Sigma_n$ by singling out one of the boundary components and denoting by $n$ the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-05-08 Pallavi Panda , Hugo Parlier , Lionel Pournin

We analyze the limit of the spectrum of a geometric Dirac-type operator under a collapse with bounded diameter and bounded sectional curvature. In the case of a smooth limit space B, we show that the limit of the spectrum is given by the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 John Lott

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

Suppose that $\Sigma=\partial M$ is the $n$-dimensional boundary of a connected compact Riemannian spin manifold $( M,\langle\;,\;\rangle)$ with non-negative scalar curvature, and that the (inward) mean curvature $H$ of $\Sigma$ is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-02-18 Oussama Hijazi , Sebastián Montiel