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In analogy with classical results in Riemannian geometry, we establish estimates for the first eigenvalue of the Laplace-de Rham operator on complete balanced Hermitian manifolds in terms of either the holomorphic Ricci curvature or the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Liangdi Zhang

We calculate the spectrum and a basis of eigenvectors for the Spin Dirac operator over the standard 3-sphere. For the spectrum, we use the method of Hitchin which we transfer to quaternions and explain in more detail. The eigenbasis (in…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2011-03-24 Johannes Fabian Meier

Let $(M,g,\si)$ be a compact Riemannian spin manifold of dimension $\geq 2$. For any metric $\tilde g$ conformal to $g$, we denote by $\tilde\lambda$ the first positive eigenvalue of the Dirac operator on $(M,\tilde g,\si)$. We show that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-06-26 Bernd Ammann , Jean-Francois Grosjean , Emmanuel Humbert , Bertrand Morel

We generalize previous work on Dirac eigenvalues as dynamical variables of Euclidean supergravity. The most general set of constraints on the curvatures of the tangent bundle and on the spinor bundle of the spacetime manifold under which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Ciuhu , I. V. Vancea

Given a compact Riemannian manifold (M n , g) with boundary $\partial$M , we give an estimate for the quotient $\partial$M f d$\mu$ g M f d$\mu$ g , where f is a smooth positive function defined on M that satisfies some inequality involving…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-16 Fida El Chami , Nicolas Ginoux , Georges Habib

In this paper we study global-in-time, weighted Strichartz estimates for the Dirac equation on warped product spaces in dimension $n\geq3$. In particular, we prove estimates for the dynamics restricted to eigenspaces of the Dirac operator…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-25 Jonathan Ben-Artzi , Federico Cacciafesta , Anne-Sophie de Suzzoni , Junyong Zhang

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 that the Dirichlet eigenvalues of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on a compact Riemannian manifold with cylindrical boundary can be approximated by the spectrum of truncated graph Laplacians constructed from…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-16 Anusha Bhattacharya

We consider the two-dimensional Dirac operator with infinite mass boundary conditions posed in a tubular neighborhood of a $C^4$-planar curve. Under generic assumptions on its curvature $\kappa$, we prove that in the thin-width regime the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2022-07-19 William Borrelli , Nour Kerraoui , Thomas Ourmières-Bonafos

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

In this paper, we consider an eigenvalue problem of the elliptic operator $$ L_r={\rm div}(T^r\nabla\cdot )$$ on compact submanifolds in arbitrary codimension of space forms $\mathbb{R}^N(c)$ with $c\geq0$. Our estimates on eigenvalues are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-04-22 Guangyue Huang , Xuerong Qi

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 present a new description of the spectrum of the (spin-) Dirac operator $D$ on lens spaces. Viewing a spin lens space $L$ as a locally symmetric space $\Gamma\backslash \operatorname{Spin}(2m)/\operatorname{Spin}(2m-1)$ and exploiting…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-30 Sebastian Boldt , Emilio A. Lauret

We study asymptotics of the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the operators used for constructing multidimensional scaling (MDS) on compact connected Riemannian manifolds, in particular on closed connected symmetric spaces. They are the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Tianyu Ma , Eugene Stepanov

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

In this work we prove that the eigenvalues of the $n$-dimensional massive Dirac operator $\mathscr{D}_0 + V$, $n\ge2$, perturbed by a possibly non-Hermitian potential $V$, are localized in the union of two disjoint disks of the complex…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-18 Piero D'Ancona , Luca Fanelli , Nico Michele Schiavone

In this note, we review some recent developments related to metric aspects of scalar curvature from the point of view of index theory for Dirac operators. In particular, we revisit index-theoretic approaches to a conjecture of Gromov on the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-15 Rudolf Zeidler

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

Let $M$ be a closed connected spin manifold of dimension $2$ or $3$ with a fixed orientation and a fixed spin structure. We prove that for a generic Riemannian metric on $M$ the non-harmonic eigenspinors of the Dirac operator are nowhere…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-06-12 Andreas Hermann

Given a compact Riemannian spin manifold with positive scalar curvature, we find a family of connections $\nabla^{A_t}$ for $t\in[0,1]$ on a trivial vector bundle of sufficiently high rank, such that the first eigenvalue of the twisted…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-07-08 Marcos Jardim Rafael F. Leão