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This paper completes the construction of arbitrary order conformally invariant differential operators in higher spin spaces. Jan Slov\'{a}k has classified all conformally invariant differential operators on locally conformally flat…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-12-07 Chao Ding , Raymond Walter , John Ryan

We determine the structure of conformal powers of the Dirac operator on Einstein {\it Spin}-manifolds in terms of the product formula for shifted Dirac operators. The result is based on the techniques of higher variations for the Dirac…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-06-01 Matthias Fischmann , Christian Krattenthaler , Petr Somberg

We present explicit formulas for the spectra of higher spin operators on the subbundle of the bundle of spinor-valued trace free symmetric tensors that are annihilated by the Clifford multiplication over the standard sphere in odd…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-09-07 Doojin Hong

Rarita-Schwinger fields are solutions to the relativistic field equation of spin-$3/2$ fermions in four dimensional flat spacetime, which are important in supergravity and superstring theories. Bure\v s et al. generalized it to arbitrary…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Wanqing Cheng , Chao Ding

We prove a formula for the multiplicities of the index of an equivariant transversally elliptic operator on a $G$-manifold. The formula is a sum of integrals over blowups of the strata of the group action and also involves eta invariants of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-07-21 Jochen Bruening , Franz Kamber , Ken Richardson

Motivated by Wigner's theorem, a canonical construction is described that produces an Atiyah-Singer Dirac operator with both unitary and anti-unitary symmetries. This Dirac operator includes the Dirac operator for KR-theory as a special…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2021-09-15 Simon Kitson

We introduce a gauge-theoretic integer lift of the Rohlin invariant of a smooth 4-manifold X with the homology of $S^1 \times S^3$. The invariant has two terms; one is a count of solutions to the Seiberg-Witten equations on X, and the other…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-04-05 Tomasz S. Mrowka , Daniel Ruberman , Nikolai Saveliev

In this paper, we establish basic material for future investigations of the analysis and geometry of the twistor bundle, and of differential operators with the twistor bundle as source and/or target, especially the Rarita-Schwinger…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas Branson , Oussama Hijazi

We prove a new lower bound for the first eigenvalue of the Dirac operator on a compact Riemannian spin manifold by refined Weitzenb\"ock techniques. It applies to manifolds with harmonic curvature tensor and depends on the Ricci tensor.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Thomas Friedrich , Klaus-Dieter Kirchberg

We find all spin operators for a Dirac particle satisfying the following very general conditions: (i) spin does not convert positive (negative) energy states into negative (positive) energy states, (ii) spin is a pseudo-vector, and (iii)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-23 Pawel Caban , Jakub Rembieliński , Marta Włodarczyk

This paper is devoted to mathematical and physical properties of the Dirac operator and spectral geometry. Spin-structures in Lorentzian and Riemannian manifolds, and the global theory of the Dirac operator, are first analyzed. Elliptic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Giampiero Esposito

In this paper, the Dirac operator, acting on super functions with values in super spinor space, is defined along the lines of the construction of generalized Cauchy-Riemann operators by Stein and Weiss. The introduction of the superalgebra…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-08-07 Kevin Coulembier , Hendrik De Bie

In this expository article, we consider first order elliptic differential operators acting on smooth vector bundles over compact manifolds, and certain invariants derived from the analysis of these operators, namely the eta invariant} and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-15 Jochen Brüning , Ken Richardson

We consider first order linear operators commuting with the operator appearing in the linearized equation of motion of Rarita-Schwinger fields which comes directly from the action. First we consider a simplified operator giving an equation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-15 Yoji Michishita

A closed spin K\"ahler manifold of positive scalar curvature with smallest possible first eigenvalue of the Dirac operator is characterized by holomorphic spinors. It is shown that on any spin K\"ahler-Einstein manifold each holomorphic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Klaus-Dieter Kirchberg

On complete non-compact manifolds with bounded sectional curvature, we consider a class of self-adjoint Dirac-type operators called Dirac-Schr\"odinger operators. Assuming two Dirac-Schr\"odinger operators coincide at infinity, by previous…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Pengshuai Shi

The overlap operator is just the simplest of a class of Dirac operators with an exact chiral symmetry. I demonstrate how a general class of chiral Dirac operators can be constructed, show that they have no fermion doublers and that they are…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 Nigel Cundy

For a symplectic manifold admitting a metaplectic structure (a symplectic analogue of the Riemannian spin structure), we construct a sequence consisting of differential operators using a symplectic torsion-free affine connection. All but…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-11-17 S. Krýsl

We describe the shape of the symplectic Dirac operators on Hermitian symmetric spaces. For this, we consider these operators as families of operators that can be handled more easily than the original ones.

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2008-04-24 Steffen Brasch , Katharina Habermann , Lutz Habermann

We prove a lower bound for the first eigenvalue of the Dirac operator on a compact Riemannian spin manifold depending on the scalar curvature as well as a chosen Codazzi tensor. The inequality generalizes the classical estimate from [2].

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-09-07 Th. Friedrich , E. C. Kim