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In this paper, we prove some isoperimetric bounds for lower order eigenvalues of the Wentzell-Laplace operator on bounded domains of a Euclidean space or a Hadamard manifold, of the Laplacian on closed hypersurfaces of a Euclidean space or…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-17 Feng Du , Jing Mao , Qiao-Ling Wang , Chang-Yu Xia

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

For the weighted Dirac eigenproblem on a compact spin manifold with the chiral boundary condition \begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} D\varphi = \lambda f\varphi & \text{in } M, \\ \mathbf{B}\varphi = 0 & \text{on } \partial M,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Mingwei Zhang

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

On a compact globally hyperbolic Lorentzian spin manifold with smooth spacelike Cauchy boundary the (hyperbolic) Dirac operator is known to be Fredholm when Atiyah-Patodi-Singer boundary conditions are imposed. In this paper we investigate…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-17 Christian Baer , Sebastian Hannes

We study the behavior of the spectrum of the Dirac operator together with a symmetric $W^{1, \infty}$-potential on spin manifolds under a collapse of codimension one with bounded sectional curvature and diameter. If there is an induced spin…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2017-08-15 Saskia Roos

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

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

We prove a sharp upper bound and a lower bound for the first nonzero eigenvalue of the Wentzell-Laplace operator on compact manifolds with boundary and an isoperimetric inequality for the same eigenvalue in the case where the manifold is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-12 Changyu Xia , Qiaoling Wang

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

The eigenfunctions of the Dirac operator on spheres and real hyperbolic spaces of arbitrary dimension are computed by separating variables in geodesic polar coordinates. These eigenfunctions are used to derive the heat kernel of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 R. Camporesi , A. Higuchi

We prove Reilly-type upper bounds for divergence-type operators of the second order as well as for Steklov problems on submanifolds of Riemannian manifolds of bounded sectional curvature endowed with a weighted measure.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-12 Fernando Manfio , Julien Roth , Abhitosh Upadhyay

We derive sharp bounds for three types of eigenvalue problems. First, we derive an upper bound for the first $p$-Dirichlet eigenvalue on conformally compact (CC) spaces. As a consequence, we show that for a class of CC submanifolds of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Samuel Pérez-Ayala

An integer valued topological index of a Dirac operator is introduced for a pair of a 4n+2 dimensional open Spin^c manifold and a section of the determinant line bundle satisfying some property. We show a relation between the index and an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-01-22 Shin Hayashi

Under various elliptic boundary conditions, we obtain lower eigenvalue estimates for Dirac operators by using Hormander's weighted $L^2$-technique. Lower bounds in terms of the volume of the underlying manifolds are also deduced from the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-16 Qingchun Ji , Li Lin

In this largely expository paper we give a self-contained treatment of the Dirac operator. Emphasizing the algebraic point of view we first sketch the necessary prerequisites from Clifford algebras and their representations and then define…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Herbert Schroeder

We prove that on a compact $n$-dimensional spin manifold admitting a non-trivial harmonic 1-form of constant length, every eigenvalue $\lambda$ of the Dirac operator satisfies the inequality $\lambda^2 \geq \frac{n-1}{4(n-2)}\inf_M Scal$.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-01-08 Andrei Moroianu , Liviu Ornea

We investigate the spectrum of the Dirac operator with infinite mass boundary conditions posed in a tubular neighborhood of a smooth compact hypersurface in $\mathbb{R}^n$ without boundary. We prove that when the tubular neighborhood…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Vladimir Lotoreichik , Thomas Ourmières-Bonafos

We give new estimates for the eigenvalues of the hypersurface Dirac operator in terms of the intrinsic energy-momentum tensor, the mean curvature and the scalar curvature. We also discuss their limiting cases as well as the limiting cases…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Bertrand Morel

We study the spectrum of the Dirac operator on hyperbolic manifolds of finite volume. Depending on the spin structure it is either discrete or the whole real line. For link complements in S^3 we give a simple criterion in terms of linking…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Christian Baer