Geometric and analytic properties of families of hypersurfaces in Eguchi--Hanson space (Q1864929)

The author studies certain families of hypersurfaces in Eguchi-Hanson space that arise as complex line bundles over curves on \(S^2\simeq\mathbb C\cup\{\infty\}\). They are three-dimensional, open, asymptotically flat Riemannian manifolds of non-positive scalar curvature which, in case of a closed curve, are foliated by Hopf tori. Their geometry is described in detail, the complete three-dimensional curvature tensor as well as the second fundamental form are computed, and also some results on the structure of the geodesic flow are given. Since an explicit description of the geometric properties of these hypersurfaces is possible, precise statements about the spectra of the scalar Laplacian and the Dirac operator and also about the existence of solutions of spinorial field equations are made. In particular, it is shown that there are no \(L^p\)-harmonic functions for every \(p\geq 1\) and arbitrary curves, and that for curves arising by Möbius transforms from closed curves the spectra of the scalar Laplacian and the square of the Dirac operator come arbitrarily close to zero, implying that zero lies in the spectrum of the considered operators. In the mentioned case, it also turns out that zero lies in the spectrum of the Dirac operator. In case that the curves considered are generalized circles in \(\mathbb C\) that arise by Möbius transforms from circles in \(\mathbb C\) with the center at the origin, the \(L^2\)-kernel of the Dirac operator in the sense of spectral theory can be computed explicitly, and it is shown that it is trivial. As it turns out, these hypersurfaces do not admit solutions to the Einstein-Dirac system; such solutions can only be obtained by deformation into a singular situation. Nevertheless, one can construct explicit examples of \(T\)-Killing spinors, which are solutions of a generalized Killing equation for spinors.