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We establish a sharp extrinsic lower bound for the first eigenvalue of the Dirac operator of an untrapped surface in initial data sets without apparent horizon in terms of the norm of its mean curvature vector. The equality case leads to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-05-28 Simon Raulot

We investigate spectral features of the Dirac operator with infinite mass boundary conditions in a smooth bounded domain of $\mathbb{R}^2$. Motivated by spectral geometric inequalities, we prove a non-linear variational formulation to…

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

We are concerned with the dependence of the lowest positive eigenvalue of the Dirac operator on the geometry of rectangles, subject to infinite-mass boundary conditions. We conjecture that the square is a global minimiser both under the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2022-08-22 Philippe Briet , David Krejcirik

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

Under standard local boundary conditions or certain global APS boundary conditions, we get lower bounds for the eigenvalues of the Dirac operator on compact spin manifolds with boundary. Limiting cases are characterized by the existence of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-31 Oussama Hijazi , Sebastian Montiel , Xiao Zhang

We prove upper and lower bounds for the eigenvalues of the Dirac operator and the Laplace operator on 2-dimensional tori. In particluar we give a lower bound for the first eigenvalue of the Dirac operator for non-trivial spin structures. It…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bernd Ammann

We exploit the connection between quantum dot Dirac operators and $\overline\partial$-Robin Laplacians. First, we find a graphical relation between their smallest positive eigenvalues, which allows us to deduce a recipe for translating…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Joaquim Duran

We give a lower bound for the eigenvalues of the Dirac operator on a compact domain of a Riemannian spin manifold under the $\MIT$ bag boundary condition. The limiting case is characterized by the existence of an imaginary Killing spinor.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Simon Raulot

The aim of this paper is to study the existence of eigenvalues in the gap of the essential spectrum of the one-dimensional Dirac operator in the presence of a bounded potential. We employ a generalized variational principle to prove…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-24 Daniel Sánchez-Mendoza , Monika Winklmeier

In this article, we study the spectrum of the magnetic Dirac operator, and the magnetic Dirac operator with potential over complete Riemannian manifolds. We find sufficient conditions on the potentials as well as the manifold so that the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-25 Nelia Charalambous , Nadine Große

For closed connected Riemannian spin manifolds an upper estimate of the smallest eigenvalue of the Dirac operator in terms of the hyperspherical radius is proved. When combined with known lower Dirac eigenvalue estimates, this has a number…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-09 Christian Baer

We extend several classical eigenvalue estimates for Dirac operators on compact manifolds to noncompact, even incomplete manifolds. This includes Friedrich's estimate for manifolds with positive scalar curvature as well as the author's…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-07-16 Christian Baer

We get optimal lower bounds for the eigenvalues of the Dirac-Witten operator on locally reducible spacelike submanifold in terms of intrinsic and extrinsic expressions. The limiting-cases are also studied.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-12 Yongfa Chen

In this note, we prove an optimal upper bound for the first Dirac eigenvalue of some hypersurfaces in Euclidean space by combining a positive mass theorem and the construction of quasi-spherical metrics. As a direct consequence of this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Simon Raulot

The aim of this paper is to study a possible "boundary phenomenon" for Spinc Dirac operators in a special case. If you parametrise Spinc Dirac operators by a family of connections on a Spinc 4-manifold with boundary, this boundary inherits…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2011-04-19 Johannes Fabian Meier

New exact upper and lower bounds are derived on the spectrum of the square of the hermitian Wilson Dirac operator. It is hoped that the derivations and the results will be of help in the search for ways to reduce the cost of simulations…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-07-09 H. Neuberger

We examine spectra of Dirac operators on compact hyperbolic surfaces. Particular attention is devoted to symmetry considerations, leading to non-trivial multiplicities of eigenvalues. The relation to spectra of Maass-Laplace operators is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jens Bolte , Hans-Michael Stiepan

Odd-dimensional Riemannian spaces that are non-orientable, but have a pin structure, require the consideration of the twisted adjoint representation of the corresponding pin group. It is shown here how the Dirac operator should be modified,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-15 Andrzej Trautman

In this paper, we give a lower bound for the spectrum of the Laplacian on minimal hypersurfaces immersed into $H^m \times R$. As an application, in dimension 2, we prove that a complete minimal surface with finite total extrinsic curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-10-07 Pierre Bérard , Philippe Castillon , Marcos P. Cavalcante