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The problem of self-adjoint extensions of Dirac-type operators in manifolds with boundaries is analysed. The boundaries might be regular or non-regular. The latter situation includes point-like interactions, also called delta-like…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-05-29 J. M. Pérez-Pardo

In this paper, we introduce the spectral Einstein functional for perturbations of Dirac operators on manifolds with boundary. Furthermore, we provide the proof of the Dabrowski-Sitarz-Zalecki type theorems associated with the spectral…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-12-06 Sining Wei , Yong Wang

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 operator on a finite warped cylinder coupled to a background $U(1)$ gauge field. We identify the intrinsic endpoint operators defining the Atiyah-Patodi-Singer (APS) boundary condition and derive a determinant…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Taro Kimura , Sanchita Sharma

We investigate the problem of calculating the Fredholm index of a geometric Dirac operator subject to local (e.g. Dirichlet and Neumann) and non-local (APS) boundary conditions posed on the strata of a manifold with corners. The boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-11 Karsten Bohlen

We study topological boundary conditions in abelian Chern-Simons theory and line operators confined to such boundaries. From a mathematical point of view, their relationships are described by a certain 2-category associated to an even…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-07 Anton Kapustin , Natalia Saulina

We consider on a spin manifold with boundary a Dirac operator $D_A$ with chiral boundary conditions, twisted by a unitary connection $A$. When $m$ is not in the chiral spectrum of $D_A$, we define an analogue of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Carlos Valero

In this talk, we review the heat kernel approach to the Atiyah-Singer index theorem for Dirac operators on closed manifolds, as well as the Atiyah-Patodi-Singer index theorem for Dirac operators on manifolds with boundary. We also discuss…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Weiping Zhang

The Atiyah-Singer index theorem on a closed manifold is well understood and appreciated in physics. On the other hand, the Atiyah-Patodi-Singer index, which is an extension to a manifold with boundary, is physicist-unfriendly, in that it is…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-12-22 Hidenori Fukaya

We compute the index of a Callias-type operator with APS boundary condition on a manifold with compact boundary in terms of combination of indexes of induced operators on a compact hypersurface. Our result generalizes the classical…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-09-19 Pengshuai Shi

We show that elliptic complexes of (pseudo)differential operators on smooth compact manifolds with boundary can always be complemented to a Fredholm problem by boundary conditions involving global pseudodifferential projections on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-29 B. -W. Schulze , J. Seiler

In this paper we show that there is a well defined modified dbar-Neumann problem for a spin_c manifold with a strictly pseudoconvex boundary (in the contact geometry sense). We show that the index of the associated boundary value problem…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Charles L. Epstein

We give an expression, in terms of boundary spectral functions, for the spectral asymmetry of the Euclidean Dirac operator in two dimensions, when its domain is determined by local boundary conditions, and the manifold is of product type.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 C. G. Beneventano , E. M. Santangelo , A. Wipf

Let (M,g) be a compact Riemannian spin manifold. The Atiyah-Singer index theorem yields a lower bound for the dimension of the kernel of the Dirac operator. We prove that this bound can be attained by changing the Riemannian metric g on an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-03 Bernd Ammann , Mattias Dahl , Emmanuel Humbert

We study realizations of pseudodifferential operators acting on sections of vector-bundles on a smooth, compact manifold with boundary, subject to conditions of Atiyah-Patodi-Singer type. Ellipticity and Fredholm property, compositions,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-17 U. Battisti , J. Seiler

Let M be a compact manifold with a fixed spin structure \chi. The Atiyah-Singer index theorem implies that for any metric g on M the dimension of the kernel of the Dirac operator is bounded from below by a topological quantity depending…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-07-21 Bernd Ammann , Mattias Dahl , Emmanuel Humbert

We consider first-order elliptic differential operators acting on vector bundles over smooth manifolds with smooth boundary, which is permitted to be noncompact. Under very mild assumptions, we obtain a regularity theory for sections in the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Christian Baer , Lashi Bandara

In his book Mickelsson notices that the infinite-dimensional Grassmannian manifold of Segal and Wilson admits a Spin^c structure and after this he naturally considers the problem of defining a Dirac operator on it. Mickelsson gives a…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2010-07-27 Vesa Tahtinen

We introduce the concept of chiral geometric operators and use Gilkey's invariance theory to prove the local index theorem for these operators. In other words, we demonstrate that the supertrace of the heat kernel of a given geometric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Alberto Richtsfeld

We define generalized Atiyah-Patodi-Singer boundary conditions of product type for Dirac operators associated to C*-vector bundles on the product of a compact manifold with boundary and a closed manifold. We prove a product formula for the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-04-14 Charlotte Wahl