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We compute the spectrum of the Dirac operator on 3-dimensional Heisenberg manifolds. The behavior under collapse to the 2-torus is studied. Depending on the spin structure either all eigenvalues tend to $\pm\infty$ or there are eigenvalues…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bernd Ammann , Christian Baer

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 give an optimal upper bound for the first eigenvalue of the untwisted Dirac operator on a compact symmetric space G/H with rk G-rk H\le 1 with respect to arbitrary Riemannian metrics. We also prove a rigidity statement.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-06-27 Sebastian Goette

We give a formula for the first eigenvalue of the Dirac operator acting on spinor fields of a spin compact irreducible symmetric space $G/K$.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Jean-Louis Milhorat

We study the Dirac spectrum on compact Riemannian spin manifolds $M$ equipped with a metric connection $\nabla$ with skew torsion $T\in\Lambda^3M$ by means of twistor theory. An optimal lower bound for the first eigenvalue of the Dirac…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-11-05 Ilka Agricola , Julia Becker-Bender , Hwajeong Kim

The magnetic Dirac operator describes the relativistic motion of a charged particle in a magnetic field. Although this operator got a lot of attention in physics many of its fundamental mathematical properties remain unexplored and this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Volker Branding , Nicolas Ginoux , Georges Habib

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 study the Dirac spectrum on compact Riemannian spin manifolds $M$ equipped with a metric connection $\nabla$ with skew torsion $T\in\Lambda^3 M$ in the situation where the tangent bundle splits under the holonomy of $\nabla$ and the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-11-06 Ilka Agricola , Hwajeong Kim

In two previous papers, we started a study of the first eigenvalue of the Dirac operator on compact spin symmetric spaces, providing, for symmetric spaces of "inner" type, a formula giving this first eigenvalue in terms of the algebraic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-19 Jean-Louis Milhorat

We establish a lower bound for the eigenvalues of the Dirac operator defined on a compact K\"ahler-Einstein manifold of positive scalar curvature and endowed with particular ${\rm spin}^c$ structures. The limiting case is characterized by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-07-15 Roger Nakad , Mihaela Pilca

We prove lower Dirac eigenvalue bounds for closed surfaces with a spin structure whose Arf invariant equals 1. Besides the area only one geometric quantity enters in these estimates, the spin-cut-diameter which depends on the choice of spin…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bernd Ammann , Christian Baer

For spin manifolds with boundary we consider Riemannian metrics which are product near the boundary and are such that the corresponding Dirac operator is invertible when half-infinite cylinders are attached at the boundary. The main result…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-06-19 Mattias Dahl , Nadine Große

On a n-dimensional connected compact manifold with non-empty boundary equipped with a Riemannian metric, a spin structure and a chirality operator, we study some properties of a spin conformal invariant defined from the first eigenvalue of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-03-10 Simon Raulot

Let $G/K$ be a simply connected spin compact inner irreducible symmetric space, endowed with the metric induced by the Killing form of $G$ sign-changed. We give a formula for the square of the first eigenvalue of the Dirac operator in terms…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Jean-Louis Milhorat

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

In this paper we will prove new extrinsic upper bounds for the eigenvalues of the Dirac operator on an isometrically immersed surface $M^2 \hookrightarrow {\Bbb R}^3$ as well as intrinsic bounds for 2-dimensional compact manifolds of genus…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-31 Ilka Agricola , Thomas Friedrich

We get optimal lower bounds for the eigenvalues of the submanifold Dirac operator on locally reducible Riemannian manifolds in terms of intrinsic and extrinsic expressions. The limiting-cases are also studied. As a corollary, one gets…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-27 Yongfa Chen

In this paper, we prove the invariance of the spectrum of the basic Dirac operator defined on a Riemannian foliation $(M,\mathcal{F})$ with respect to a change of bundle-like metric. We then establish new estimates for its eigenvalues on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Georges Habib , Ken Richardson

On any compact manifold of dimension greater than 6, we prescribe the volume and any finite part of the spectrum Hodge Laplacian acting on $p$-form for $1\leq p<\frac n2$. In particular, we prescribe the multiplicity of the first…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-10 Pierre Jammes

In this article, we consider the Dirac operator with constant magnetic field in $\mathbb R^2$. Its spectrum consists of eigenvalues of infinite multiplicities, known as the Landau-Dirac levels. Under compactly supported perturbations, we…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Vincent Bruneau , Pablo Miranda