Connections on naturally reductive spaces and their Dirac operators (Q1608678)

In a homogeneous space whose metric is naturally reductive a set of connections is regarded, depending on a parameter \(t\). The author proves that the Dirac operator for a certain value of \(t\) coincides with the so-called cubic Dirac operator introduced by B. Kostant in 1999. Further, an eigenvalue estimate for the first eigenvalue of this operator is provided as well as some applications to string theory.