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We prove new lower bounds for the first eigenvalue of the Dirac operator on compact manifolds whose Weyl tensor or curvature tensor, respectively, is divergence free. In the special case of Einstein manifolds, we obtain estimates depending…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-07 Thomas Friedrich , Klaus-Dieter Kirchberg

We give a new upper bound for the smallest eigenvalues of the Dirac operator on a Riemannian flow carrying transversal Killing spinors. We derive an estimate on Sasakian and on 3-dimensional manifolds and partially classify those satisfying…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-10-07 Nicolas Ginoux , Georges Habib

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

We re-visit the eigenvalue estimate of the Dirac operator on spin manifolds with boundary in terms of the first eigenvalues of conformal Laplace operator as well as the conformal mean curvature operator. These problems were studied earlier…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-12-04 Daguang Chen , Fang Wang , Xiao Zhang

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

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

We prove a lower estimate for the first eigenvalue of the Dirac operator on a compact locally reducible Riemannian spin manifold with positive scalar curvature. We determine also the universal covers of the manifolds on which the smallest…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bogdan Alexandrov

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 main result of this paper is a sharp upper bound on the first positive eigenvalue of Dirac operators in two dimensional simply connected $C^3$-domains with infinite mass boundary conditions. This bound is given in terms of a conformal…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-05-01 Vladimir Lotoreichik , Thomas Ourmières-Bonafos

The aim of the lectures is to introduce first-year Ph.D. students and research workers to the theory of the Dirac operator, spinor techniques, and their relevance for the theory of eigenvalues in Riemannian geometry. Topics: differential…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Giampiero Esposito

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

We carry the index theory for manifolds with boundary of B\"ar and Ballmann over to first order differential operators on metric graphs. This approach results in a short proof for the index of such operators. Then the self-adjoint…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-20 Alberto Richtsfeld

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

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

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

In this paper, we consider the eigenvalue problem of Dirac operator on a compact Riemannian manifold isometrically immersed into Euclidean space and derive some extrinsic estimates for the sum of arbitrary consecutive $n$ eigenvalues of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-23 Lingzhong Zeng

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

In this paper, we extend the Hijazi inequality, involving the Energy-Momentum tensor, for the eigenvalues of the Dirac operator on $Spin^c$ manifolds without boundary. The limiting case is then studied and an example is given.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-19 Roger Nakad

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

In this paper, we get estimates on the higher eigenvalues of the Dirac operator on locally reducible Riemannian manifolds, in terms of the eigenvalues of the Laplace-Beltrami operator and the scalar curvature. These estimates are sharp, in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Yongfa Chen