Upper bounds of small eigenvalues of the Dirac operator and isometric immersions (Q912404)
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Upper bounds of small eigenvalues of the Dirac operator and isometric immersions (English)
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1991
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It is shown that a topologically determined number of eigenvalues \(\lambda\) of the Dirac operator D of a closed Riemannian spin manifold M of even dimension n can be bounded by \(| \lambda | \leq 2^{n/4}\| h_ f\|,\) where \(\| h_ f\|\) is the maximum of the second fundamental form \(h_ f\) of an isometric immersion f of M into \({\mathbb{R}}^ N\). This leads to similar bounds in terms of the maximum of the scalar curvature if the manifold admits a minimal immersion into a sphere, or if M is complex, an isometric holomorphic immersion into a complex projective space. In the appendix the spectrum of the Dirac operator on the quaternionic projective space \({\mathbb{H}}P^ 2\) is calculated.
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eigenvalues
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Dirac operator
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spin manifold
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isometric immersion
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minimal immersion
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isometric holomorphic immersion
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complex projective space
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spectrum
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Riemannian manifold
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