Eigenvalue estimates of the basic Dirac operator on a Riemannian foliation (Q861427)

The authors establish a lower bound on the square of the basic Dirac operator on a foliated Riemannian manifold \(M\) having a transverse spin structure. This is exhibited in terms of the smallest eigenvalue of the basic Yamabe operator and the norm of an appropriate endomorphism of the normal bundle of the foliation. As such it is analogous to the results of \textit{O. Hijazi} [J. Geom. Phys. 16, No. 1, 27--38 (1995; Zbl 0823.34074)] for unfoliated manifolds. Contents include: Introduction; Preliminaries and known facts; Transversal Dirac operators of transversally conformally related metrics; Eigenvalue estimate of the basic Dirac operator; The limiting case; and a bibliography of twenty-three references.