Almost harmonic spinors

DOI10.1016/J.CRMA.2010.06.010MaRDI QIDQ990214zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nicolas Ginoux, Jean-François Grosjean

Publication date 6 September 2010

Published in Comptes Rendus. Mathématique. Académie des Sciences, Paris (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.0951

zbMATH Keywords

conformal volumeDirac operatoreigenvaluespin manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Particular ordinary differential operators (Dirac, one-dimensional Schrödinger, etc.) (34L40) Eigenvalue problems for linear operators (47A75) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43) Spectral theory; eigenvalue problems on manifolds (58C40) Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20)

Abstract: We show that any closed spin manifold not diffeomorphic to the two-sphere admits a sequence of volume-one-Riemannian metrics for which the smallest non-zero Dirac eigenvalue tends to zero. As an application, we compare the Dirac spectrum with the conformal volume.

Review text

The authors prove the following theorem. For any \((n\geq 2)\) \(n\)-dimensional closed spin manifold \(M^n\) not diffeomorphic to \(\mathbb{S}^2\) there exists a sequence \((g_p)_{p\in\mathbb{N}}\) of Riemannian metrics on \(M^n\) such that \[ \lambda^+_1(D^2_{g_p})\text{Vol}(M^n, g_p)^{{2\over n}}@>(p\to\infty)>> 0. \] Here \(D_g\) denotes the spin Dirac operator associated to a Riemannian metric \(g\) and \(\lambda_1(D^2_g)\) and \(\lambda^+_1(D^2_g)\) are the smallest and the smallest positive eigenvalue of \(D^2_g\), respectively. As an application, the authors compare the Dirac spectrum with the conformal volume.

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