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The primary aim of this thesis is to investigate metrics which are induced by a differential form and arise as a critical point of Hitchin's variational principle. Firstly, we investigate metrics associated with the structure group PSU(3)…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Frederik Witt

The relationship between spinors and Clifford (or geometric) algebra has long been studied, but little consistency may be found between the various approaches. However, when spinors are defined to be elements of the even subalgebra of some…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Matthew R. Francis , Arthur Kosowsky

We develop a geometric framework for generalized Milnor classifying spaces in the setting of diffeological spaces and infinite-dimensional geometry. Starting from Milnor's construction, we introduce spherical and projective models endowed…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Jean-Pierre Magnot

For a Dirac operator $D_{\bar{g}}$ over a spin compact Riemannian manifold with boundary $(\bar{X},\bar{g})$, we give a natural construction of the Calder\'on projector and of the associated Bergman projector on the space of harmonic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-09-17 Colin Guillarmou , Sergiu Moroianu , Jinsung Park

The essentially unique torsionful version of the classical two-component spinor formalisms of Infeld and van der Waerden is presented. All the metric spinors and connecting objects that arise here are formally the same as the ones borne by…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-01-26 J. G. Cardoso

It is shown how the old Cartan's conjecture on the fundamental role of the geometry of simple (or pure) spinors, as bilinearly underlying euclidean geometry, may be extended also to quantum mechanics of fermions (in first quantization),…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Paolo Budinich

We show that on every Spin(7) manifold there always exists a unique linear connection with totally skew-symmetric torsion preserving a nontrivial spinor and the Spin(7) structure. We express its torsion and the Riemannian scalar curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Stefan Ivanov

This paper is concerned with the zero mode equation $D_g\varphi=iA\cdot\varphi$ on closed spin manifold $(M^n,g,\sigma)$ of positive scalar curvature. Here $A$ is a real one form on $M$. We proved that if $(\varphi, A)$ is a non trivial…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Jurgen Julio-Batalla

We show that given a conformal structure whose holonomy representation fixes a totally lightlike subspace of arbitrary dimension, there is always a local metric in the conformal class off a singular set which is Ricci-isotropic and gives…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-08-12 Andree Lischewski

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

In spinor formalism, since any massless free-field spinor with spin higher than $1/2$ can be constructed with spin-1/2 spinors (Dirac-Weyl spinors) and scalars, we introduce a map between Weyl fields and Dirac-Weyl fields. We determine the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-07 Shanzhong Han

We present a comprehensive table of recurrence and differential relations obeyed by spin one-half spherical spinors (spinor spherical harmonics) $\Omega_{\kappa\mu}(\mathbf{n})$ used in relativistic atomic, molecular, and solid state…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-05-25 Radosław Szmytkowski

Let A be a cosemisimple Hopf *-algebra with antipode S and let $\Gamma$ be a left-covariant first order differential *-calculus over A such that $\Gamma$ is self-dual and invariant under the Hopf algebra automorphism S^2. A quantum Clifford…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2016-09-07 I. Heckenberger

A smooth, compact 4-manifold with a Riemannian metric and b^(2+) > 0 has a non-trivial, closed, self-dual 2-form. If the metric is generic, then the zero set of this form is a disjoint union of circles. On the complement of this zero set,…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Clifford Henry Taubes

We explore two-dimensional sigma models with (0,2) supersymmetry through their chiral algebras. Perturbatively, the chiral algebras of (0,2) models have a rich infinite-dimensional structure described by the cohomology of a sheaf of chiral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-02 Junya Yagi

On the basis of our recent modifications of the Dirac formalism we generalize the Bargmann-Wigner formalism for higher spins to be compatible with other formalisms for bosons. Relations with dual electrodynamics, with the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-07-12 Valeriy V. Dvoeglazov

In this article, we give all the Weitzenb\"ock-type formulas among the geometric first order differential operators on the spinor fields with spin $j+1/2$ over Riemannian spin manifolds of constant curvature. Then we find an explicit…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-21 Yasushi Homma , Takuma Tomihisa

We systematically study categorical duality operators on spin (and anyon) chains with respect to an internal fusion category symmetry C. We parameterize duality operators on the quasi-local algebra in terms of data dependent on the…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Corey Jones , Xinping Yang

Let $f:N\rightarrow (M,g)$ be an oriented (or spin), complete, stable, minimal, immersed hypersurface. In this paper we establish various vanishing theorems for the space of $L^2$-harmonic forms and spinors (in the spin case) under suitable…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Francesco Bei , Giuseppe Pipoli

We study Kohn-Dirac operators $D_\theta$ on strictly pseudoconvex CR manifolds with ${\rm spin}^{\mathbb C}$ structure of weight $\ell\in{\mathbb Z}$. Certain components of $D_\theta$ are CR invariants. We also derive CR invariant twistor…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-05 Felipe Leitner