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We study conformal $Spin$-subgeometry of submanifolds in a semi-Riemannian $Spin$-manifold, focusing on conformal $Spin$-manifolds $(M,[h])$ and their Poincar\'e-Einstein metrics $(X,g_+)$. Our approach is based on the spectral theory of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-05-30 Matthias Fischmann , Petr Somberg

We investigate the second Dirac eigenvalue on Riemannian manifolds admitting a Killing spinor. In small dimensions the whole Dirac spectrum depends on special eigenvalues on functions and 1-forms. We compute and discuss the formulas in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-04-06 Thomas Friedrich

This paper deals with the eigenvalue problem for the operator $L=-\Delta -x\cdot \nabla $ with Dirichlet boundary conditions. We are interested in proving the existence of a set minimizing any eigenvalue $\lambda_k$ of $L$ under a suitable…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-06-27 Barbara Brandolini , Francesco Chiacchio , Antoine Henrot , Cristina Trombetti

In the present paper we study some kinds of the problems for the bi-drifting Laplacian operator and get some sharp lower bounds for the first eigenvalue for these eigenvalue problems on compact manifolds with boundary (also called a smooth…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Adriano Cavalcante Bezerra , Changyu Xia

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

In this paper, we get estimates on the higher eigenvalues of the Dirac operator on locally reducible Riemannian manifolds, in terms of the eigenvalues of the Laplace-Beltrami operator and the scalar curvature. These estimates are sharp, in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Yongfa Chen

We study the eigenvalue problem for the Dirichlet Laplacian in bounded simply connected plane domains $\Omega\subset\mathbb{C}$ using conformal transformations of the original problem to the weighted eigenvalue problem for the Dirichlet…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2015-04-07 Victor Burenkov , Vladimir Gol'dshtein , Alexander Ukhlov

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 show that for generic Riemannian metrics on a simply-connected closed spin manifold of dimension at least 5 the dimension of the space of harmonic spinors is no larger than it must be by the index theorem. The same result holds for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-07-22 Christian Baer , Mattias Dahl

In this paper, we extend the Hijazi inequality, involving the Energy-Momentum tensor, for the eigenvalues of the Dirac operator on $Spin^c$ manifolds without boundary. The limiting case is then studied and an example is given.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-19 Roger Nakad

Consider the first nontrivial eigenvalue of the Laplacian on a closed surface as a functional on the space of Riemannian metrics of unit area. N. Nadirashvili has discovered a remarkable connection between critical points of this functional…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-15 Mikhail Karpukhin

In the present paper, we study the variational properties of Steklov transmission eigenvalues, which can be seen as eigenvalues of the sum of two Dirichlet-to-Neumann operators on two different sides of a given curve contained in a surface.…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Mikhail Karpukhin , Alain Didier Noutchegueme

We investigate in this paper the existence of a metric which maximizes the first eigenvalue of the Laplacian on Riemannian surfaces. We first prove that, in a given conformal class, there always exists such a maximizing metric which is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-18 Romain Petrides

In this paper we investigate the properties of a semi-linear problem on a spin manifold involving the Dirac operator, through the construction of Rabinowitz-Floer homology groups. We give several existence results for sub-critical and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-03-21 Ali Maalaoui

The lattice Dirac equation is formulated on a simplicial complex which approximates a smooth Riemann manifold by introducing a lattice vierbein on each site and a lattice spin connection on each link. Care is taken so the construction…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-06-28 Richard C. Brower , George T. Fleming , Andrew D. Gasbarro , Timothy G. Raben , Chung-I Tan , Evan S. Weinberg

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 study notions of isotopy and concordance for Riemannian metrics on manifolds with boundary and, in particular, we introduce two variants of the concept of minimal concordance, the weaker one naturally arising when considering certain…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-14 Alessandro Carlotto , Chao Li

We look at smooth manifolds equipped with a possibly singular Riemannian metric. We give sufficient conditions for the existence of scalar curvature measures and Dirac operators.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-24 John Lott

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

Let $(M_i, g_i)_{i \in \mathbb{N}}$ be a sequence of spin manifolds with uniform bounded curvature and diameter that converges to a lower dimensional Riemannian manifold $(B,h)$ in the Gromov-Hausdorff topology. Lott showed that the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-05-08 Saskia Roos