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We present the details of our embedding proof of the Atiyah-Patodi-Singer index theorem for Dirac operators on manifolds with boundary.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Xianzhe Dai , Weiping Zhang

We consider the classical Dirac operator on globally hyperbolic manifolds with timelike boundary and show well-posedness of the Cauchy initial-boundary value problem coupled to APS-boundary conditions. This is achieved by deriving suitable…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Nicolò Drago , Nadine Große , Simone Murro

For a Riemannian manifold with a cylindrical end, consider a Dirac-type operator that is asymptotically product type with the generalized Atiyah-Patodi-Singer boundary condition on any finite portion of the cylinder. In the present work we…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Kunal Sharma

We consider operators of boundary value problems for 3D- Dirac operators in unbounded domains with the uniformly regular boundary. We give effective conditions of self-adjointness of operators under consideration and a description of their…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Vladimir Rabinovich

We consider the index of a Dirac operator on a compact even dimensional manifold with a domain wall. The latter is defined as a co-dimension one submanifold where the connection jumps. We formulate and prove an analog of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-07-17 A. V. Ivanov , D. V. Vassilevich

We introduce a mathematician-friendly formulation of the physicist-friendly derivation of the Atiyah-Patodi-Singer index of our previous paper. Our viewpoint sheds some new light on the interplay among the Atiyah-Patodi-Singer boundary…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-08-26 Hidenori Fukaya , Mikio Furuta , Shinichiroh Matsuo , Tetsuya Onogi , Satoshi Yamaguchi , Mayuko Yamashita

We show that the Dirac operator on a compact globally hyperbolic Lorentzian spacetime with spacelike Cauchy boundary is a Fredholm operator if appropriate boundary conditions are imposed. We prove that the index of this operator is given by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-10-01 Christian Baer , Alexander Strohmaier

In the paper we consider the theory of elliptic operators acting in subspaces defined by pseudodifferential projections. This theory on closed manifolds is connected with the theory of boundary value problems for operators violating…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-26 A. Yu. Savin , B. Yu. Sternin

We consider the Dirac operator on asymptotically static Lorentzian manifolds with an odd-dimensional compact Cauchy surface. We prove that if Atiyah-Patodi-Singer boundary conditions are imposed at infinite times then the Dirac operator is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-02-08 Dawei Shen , Michał Wrochna

After a brief discussion of elliptic boundary problems and their properties, we concentrate on a particular example: the Euclidean Dirac operator in two dimensions, with its domain determined by local boundary conditions. We discuss the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 C. G. Beneventano , E. M. Santangelo

First, we review the Dirac operator folklore about basic analytic and geometrical properties of operators of Dirac type on compact manifolds with smooth boundary and on closed partitioned manifolds and show how these properties depend on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-23 Bernhelm Booss-Bavnbek , Matthias Lesch

This is a survey of recent results on zeta- and eta-function poles and values for realizations of Laplace- and Dirac-type operators defined by pseudodifferential projection boundary conditions (including the Atiyah-Patodi-Singer operator…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Gerd Grubb

Index theorems for the Dirac operator allow one to study spinors on manifolds with boundary and torsion. We analyse the modifications of the boundary Chern-Simons correction and APS eta invariant in the presence of torsion. The bulk…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Kasper Peeters , Andrew Waldron

We consider modifications of the classical dbar-Neumann conditions that define Fredholm problems for the Spin_C Dirac operator. In part II, we use boundary layer methods to obtain subelliptic estimates for these boundary value problems.…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Charles L Epstein

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

We prove quadratic estimates for complex perturbations of Dirac-type operators, and thereby show that such operators have a bounded functional calculus. As an application we show that spectral projections of the Hodge--Dirac operator on…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2009-11-10 Andreas Axelsson , Stephen Keith , Alan McIntosh

We provide a comprehensive lattice formulation of various types of the Dirac operator indices, employing $K$-theory to classify the Wilson Dirac operator via its spectral flow. In contrast to the index of the overlap Dirac operator defined…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-02-27 Shoto Aoki , Hajime Fujita , Hidenori Fukaya , Mikio Furuta , Shinichiroh Matsuo , Tetsuya Onogi , Satoshi Yamaguchi

The Aharonov-Casher theorem is a result on the number of the so-called zero modes of a system described by the magnetic Pauli operator in $\mathbb{R}^2$. In this paper we address the same question for the Dirac operator on a flat…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Marie Fialová

Index theory for Lorentzian Dirac operators is a young subject with significant differences to elliptic index theory. It is based on microlocal analysis instead of standard elliptic theory and one of the main features is that a nontrivial…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-17 Christian Baer , Alexander Strohmaier

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