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We study the first nonzero eigenvalues for the $p$-Laplacian on quaternionic K\"ahler manifolds. Our first result is a lower bound for the first nonzero closed (Neumann) eigenvalue of the $p$-Laplacian on compact quaternionic K\"ahler…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-22 Kui Wang , Shaoheng Zhang

In this article we prove an upper bound for a Hilbert polynomial on quaternionic Kaehler manifolds of positive scalar curvature. As corollaries we obtain bounds on the quaternionic volume and the degree of the associated twistor space.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Uwe Semmelmann , Gregor Weingart

Using Weitzenb\"ock techniques on any compact Riemannian spin manifold we derive inequalities that involve a real parameter and join the eigenvalues of the Dirac operator with curvature terms. The discussion of these inequalities yields…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-10 K. -D. Kirchberg

We study the minimization problem for eigenvalues of the Dirac operator within a fixed conformal class on a closed spin Riemannian manifold. We establish a criterion for the existence of a minimizer for this variational problem, focusing…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Pavel Martynyuk

Assume that the compact Riemannian spin manifold $(M^n,g)$ admits a $G$-structure with characteristic connection $\nabla$ and parallel characteristic torsion ($\nabla T=0$), and consider the Dirac operator $D^{1/3}$ corresponding to the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-11-06 Ilka Agricola , Thomas Friedrich , Mario Kassuba

We study the clustering of the lowest non negative eigenvalue of the Dirac operator on a general Dirac bundle when the metric structure is varied. In the classical case we show that any closed spin manifold of dimension greater than or…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-22 Simone Farinelli

We prove a new lower bound for the first eigenvalue of the Dirac operator on a compact Riemannian spin manifold by refined Weitzenb\"ock techniques. It applies to manifolds with harmonic curvature tensor and depends on the Ricci tensor.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Thomas Friedrich , Klaus-Dieter Kirchberg

Quaternionic and octonionic spinors are introduced and their fundamental properties (such as the space-times supporting them) are reviewed. The conditions for the existence of their associated Dirac equations are analyzed. Quaternionic and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Francesco Toppan

In this paper, we define lower dimensional volumes of compact Riemannian manifolds with boundary. For five dimensional spin manifolds with boundary, we prove a Kastler-Kalau-Walze type theorem associated with one-form perturbations of Dirac…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-31 Jian Wang , Yong Wang

We study some similarities between almost product Riemannian structures and almost Hermitian structures. Inspired by the similarities, we prove lower eigenvalue estimates for the Dirac operator on compact Riemannian spin manifolds with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Eui Chul Kim

We consider the Dirac operator on right triangles, subject to infinite-mass boundary conditions. We conjecture that the lowest positive eigenvalue is minimised by the isosceles right triangle both under the area or perimeter constraints. We…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-04-12 Tuyen Vu

We describe a new family of examples of hypersurfaces in the sphere satisfying the limiting-case in C. B\"ar's extrinsic upper bound for the smallest eigenvalue of the Dirac operator.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Nicolas Ginoux

We construct exact solutions of the Einstein-Dirac equation, which couples the gravitational field with an eigenspinor of the Dirac operator via the energy-momentum tensor. For this purpose we introduce a new field equation generalizing the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-31 Eui Chul Kim , Thomas Friedrich

We derive various pinching results for small Dirac eigenvalues using the classification of $\text{spin}^c$ and spin manifolds admitting nontrivial Killing spinors. For this, we introduce a notion of convergence for $\text{spin}^c$ manifolds…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2017-06-14 Saskia Roos

We present a result for non-compact manifolds with invertible Dirac operator, where we link the presence of a massless Killing spinor, with a harmonic, closed conformal Killing-Yano tensor, if one exists for the specic manifold. A couple of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-16 C. Rugina , A. Ludu

We determine the Killing superalgebras underpinning field theories with rigid unextended supersymmetry on Lorentzian four-manifolds by re-interpreting them as filtered deformations of $\mathbb{Z}$-graded subalgebras with maximum odd…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-20 Paul de Medeiros , José Figueroa-O'Farrill , Andrea Santi

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 derive new lower bounds for the first eigenvalue of the Dirac operator of an oriented hypersurface $\Sigma$ bounding a noncompact domain in a spin asymptotically flat manifold (M n , g) with nonnegative scalar curvature. These bounds…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-04-26 Simon Raulot

The Rarita-Schwinger operator is the twisted Dirac operator restricted to 3/2-spinors. Rarita-Schwinger fields are solutions of this operator which are in addition divergence-free. This is an overdetermined problem and solutions are rare;…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-24 Christian Baer , Rafe Mazzeo

Eigenvalue estimate for the Dirac-Witten operator is given on bounded domains (with smooth boundary) of spacelike hypersurfaces satisfying the dominant energy condition, under four natural boundary conditions (MIT, APS, modified APS, and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Daniel Maerten