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The motivation of this paper is to study a second order elliptic operator which appears naturally in Riemannian geometry, for instance in the study of hypersurfaces with constant $r$-mean curvature. We prove a generalized Bochner-type…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-04-13 Hilário Alencar , Gregório Silva Neto , Detang Zhou

We establish new connections between integral curvature bounds and the Euler characteristic of closed Riemannian manifolds through the perspective of Schr\"odinger-type operators. Central to our approach is the twisted Dirac operator…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Teng Huang , Pan Zhang

Let M be a compact manifold equipped with a Riemannian metric g and a spin structure \si. We let $\lambda (M,[g],\si)= \inf_{\tilde{g} \in [g]} \lambda_1^+(\tilde{g}) Vol(M,\tilde{g})^{1/n}$ where $\lambda_1^+(\tilde{g})$ is the smallest…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bernd Ammann , Emmanuel Humbert , Bertrand Morel

We study the spectrum of the Dirac operator $D$ on pseudo-Riemannian spin manifolds of signature $(p,q)$, considered as an unbounded operator in the Hilbert space $L^2_\xi(S)$. The definition of $L^2_\xi(S)$ involves the choice of a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-14 Momsen Reincke

This paper develops a weighted $L^2$-method for the (half) Dirac equation. For Dirac bundles over closed Riemann surfaces, we give a sufficient condition for the solvability of the (half) Dirac equation in terms of a curvature integral.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Qingchun Ji , Ke Zhu

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

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 prove a new upper bound for the first eigenvalue of the Dirac operator of a compact hypersurface in any Riemannian spin manifold carrying a non-trivial twistor spinor without zeros on the hypersurface. The upper bound is expressed as the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Nicolas Ginoux , Georges Habib , Simon Raulot

We consider the eigenfunctions of the Laplace operator $\Delta $ on a compact Riemannian manifold of dimension $n$. For $M$ homogeneous with irreducible isotropy representation and for a fixed eigenvalue of $\Delta $ we find the average…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-03-21 Dmitri Akhiezer , Boris Kazarnovskii

We study the clustering of the lowest non negative eigenvalue of the Dirac operator on a general Dirac bundle when the metric structure is varied. In the classical case we show that any closed spin manifold of dimension greater than or…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-22 Simone Farinelli

In this manuscript, we study the nonlinear eigenvalue problem on complete Riemannian manifolds with Ricci curvature bounded from below, to find the unknowns $\lambda$ and $u$, such that $$ Qu + \lambda f(u) = 0 $$ where $\lambda$ is an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Bin Shen , Yuhan Zhu

The Yamabe Invariant of a smooth compact manifold is by definition the supremum of the scalar curvatures of unit-volume Yamabe metrics on the manifold. For an explicit infinite class of 4-manifolds, we show that this invariant is positive…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Matthew J. Gursky , Claude LeBrun

We compute by Monte Carlo methods the individual distributions of the $k$th smallest Dirac operator eigenvalues in QCD, and compare them with recent analytical predictions. We do this for both massless and massive quarks in an SU(3) gauge…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-31 P. H. Damgaard , U. M. Heller , R. Niclasen , K. Rummukainen

The main result of this article is a Llarull-type rigidity statement for scalar curvature on Riemannian spin manifolds with cone-like singularities in odd dimensions. The even dimensional analog was proven in an earlier work together with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-04 Lukas Schoenlinner

We analyse the normalisable zero-modes of the Dirac operator on the Taub-NUT manifold coupled to an abelian gauge field with self-dual curvature, and interpret them in terms of the zero modes of the Dirac operator on the 2-sphere coupled to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Rogelio Jante , Bernd Schroers

It has been recently shown that the eigenvalues of the Dirac operator can be considered as dynamical variables of Euclidean gravity. The purpose of this paper is to explore the possiblity that the eigenvalues of the Dirac operator might…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 I. V. Vancea

We consider the Dirac Operator acting on the Clifford Algebra ${C\ell}_{m}$. We show that under critical assumptions on the potential and the spinor field the equation is subject to an integrability by compensation phenomenon and has a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-24 Francesca Da Lio , Tristan Rivière , Jerome Wettstein

We approximate the spectral data (eigenvalues and eigenfunctions) of compact Riemannian manifold by the spectral data of a sequence of (computable) discrete Laplace operators associated to some graphs immersed in the manifold. We give an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-01-17 Erwann Aubry

Given an $m$-dimensional closed connected Riemannian manifold $M$ smoothly isometrically immersed in an $n$-dimensional Riemannian manifold $N$, we estimate the diameter of $M$ in terms of its mean curvature field integral under some…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-10-21 Jia-Yong Wu , Yu Zheng

In this paper, we investigate eigenvalues of the Dirichlet problem and the closed eigenvalue problem of drifting Laplacian on the complete metric measure spaces and establish the corresponding general formulas. By using those general…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-22 Lingzhong Zeng