On the first eigenvalue of the Dirac operator on 6-dimensional manifolds (Q1065444)

Let \((M^ n,g)\) be a closed Riemannian spin-manifold with positive scalar curvature R and let \(R_ 0\) denote its minimum. If \(\Lambda^{\pm}\) is the first positive or negative eigenvalue of the Dirac operator on M, then \[ \sqrt{(n/(n-1))R_ 0}\leq | \Lambda^{\pm}| \] and if equality holds then M must be an Einstein space. The authors give the first example of \((M^ n,g)\) with n even different from the sphere realizing the lower bound as an eigenvalue.