Analysis of first-order systems of partial differential equations

DOI10.1090/CONM/653/13184MaRDI QIDQ3187386zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yan-Long Fang, Dmitri Vassiliev

Publication date 2 September 2016

Published in Complex Analysis and Dynamical Systems VI (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.2663

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

First-order elliptic systems (35J46) Asymptotic distributions of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P20) Time-dependent Schrödinger equations and Dirac equations (35Q41) PDEs on manifolds (35R01)

Abstract: The paper deals with a formally self-adjoint first order linear differential operator acting on m-columns of complex-valued half-densities over an n-manifold without boundary. We study the distribution of eigenvalues in the elliptic setting and the propagator in the hyperbolic setting, deriving two-term asymptotic formulae for both. We then turn our attention to the special case of a two by two operator in dimension four. We show that the geometric concepts of Lorentzian metric, Pauli matrices, spinor field, connection coefficients for spinor fields, electromagnetic covector potential, Dirac equation and Dirac action arise naturally in the process of our analysis.

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