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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

We derive a number of spectral results for Dirac operators in geometrically nontrivial regions in $\mathbb{R}^2$ and $\mathbb{R}^3$ of tube or layer shapes with a zigzag type boundary using the corresponding properties of the Dirichlet…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2022-10-26 Pavel Exner , Markus Holzmann

We study transport and optical properties of the surface states which lie in the bulk energy gap of a thin-film topological insulator. When the film thickness is comparable with the surface state decay length into the bulk, the tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-04 Hai-Zhou Lu , Wen-Yu Shan , Wang Yao , Qian Niu , Shun-Qing Shen

New extrinsic lower bounds are given for the classical Dirac operator on the boundary of a compact domain of a spin manifold. The main tool is to solve some boundary problems for the Dirac operator of the domain under boundary conditions of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Oussama Hijazi , Sebastian Montiel , Xiao Zhang

We prove a new upper bound for the smallest eigenvalues of the Dirac operator on a compact hypersurface of the hyperbolic space.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Nicolas Ginoux

The two-dimensional Dirac operator describes low-energy excitations in graphene. Different choices for the boundary conditions give rise to qualitative differences in the spectrum of the resulting operator. For a family of boundary…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-04-21 Rafael D. Benguria , Søren Fournais , Edgardo Stockmeyer , Hanne Van Den Bosch

The spectral propinquity is a distance, up to unitary equivalence, on the class of metric spectral triples. We prove in this paper that if a sequence of metric spectral triples converges for the propinquity, then the spectra of the Dirac…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2024-07-15 Frederic Latremoliere

We reconsider the problem of surface states spectrum in type One Dirac metals. We find that the surface states, despite being gapped, always form branches terminating at Dirac points. Furthermore, we consider evolution of the surface states…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-15 Grigory Bednik

We study complete finite topology immersed surfaces $\Sigma$ in complete Riemannian $3$-manifolds $N$ with sectional curvature $K_N\leq -a^2\leq 0$, such that the absolute mean curvature function of $\Sigma$ is bounded from above by $a$ and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-08-01 William H. Meeks , Álvaro K. Ramos

This paper reviews some recent work on (s)pin structures and the Dirac operator on hypersurfaces (in particular, on spheres), on real projective spaces and quadrics. Two approaches to spinor fields on manifolds are compared. The action of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-13 Andrzej Trautman

For oriented surfaces $\Sigma$ with boundary, we consider the infinite-dimensional deformation space of projective structures on $\Sigma$ with nondegenerate boundary, up to isotopies fixing the boundary. We show that this space carries a…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Ahmadreza Khazaeipoul , Eckhard Meinrenken

We give a reformulation of Salem's conjecture about the absence of Salem numbers near one in terms of a uniform spectral gap for certain arithmetic hyperbolic surfaces.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-12-20 Emmanuel Breuillard , Bertrand Deroin

We construct the new one-dimensional Dirac Hamiltonians that are spectrally isomorphic (not isospectral) with the known exactly solvable models. Explicit formulas for their spectra and eigenstates are provided. The operators are utilized…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-05 Vit Jakubsky

Let $X$ be a closed, connected, oriented surface of genus $g$, with a hyperbolic metric chosen at random according to the Weil--Petersson measure on the moduli space of Riemannian metrics. Let $\lambda_1=\lambda_1(X)$ bethe first non-zero…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-03-20 Nalini Anantharaman , Laura Monk

The eigenvalues of the Laplace-Beltrami operator and the integrals of products of eigenfunctions and holomorphic $s$-differentials satisfy certain consistency conditions on closed hyperbolic surfaces. These consistency conditions can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-02 James Bonifacio

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

In this article, we prove that typical hyperbolic surfaces, sampled with the Weil-Petersson probability measure, have a spectral gap at least $2/9 - \epsilon$. This is an intermediate result on the way to our proof of the optimal spectral…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Nalini Anantharaman , Laura Monk

Given a symplectic manifold $(M,\omega)$ admitting a metaplectic structure, and choosing a positive $\omega$-compatible almost complex structure $J$ and a linear connection $\nabla$ preserving $\omega$ and $J$, Katharina and Lutz Habermann…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-28 Michel Cahen , Simone Gutt , John Rawnsley

We describe a new method for constraining Laplacian spectra of hyperbolic surfaces and 2-orbifolds. The main ingredient is consistency of the spectral decomposition of integrals of products of four automorphic forms. Using a combination of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-23 Petr Kravchuk , Dalimil Mazac , Sridip Pal

In this article, we provide the spectral analysis of a Dirac-type operator on $\mathbb{Z}^2$ by describing the behavior of the spectral shift function associated with a sign-definite trace-class perturbation by a multiplication operator. We…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Pablo Miranda , Daniel Parra , Georgi Raikov