Dirac-harmonic equations for differential forms (Q2349029)

The authors introduce Dirac-harmonic equations for differential forms. This is a variant of so-called \(A\)-harmonic equations \(d^*A(x, d\omega)=0\) where \(\omega\) is a differential form, \(d\) the exterior differential operator and \(d^*\) its formal adjoint,and \(A\) an approbiate operator, e.g. \(A(x,\xi)=\xi|\xi|^p\). The basic idea of the authors is that in certain applications one would like to have a similar equation \(d^*A(x, D\omega)=0\) where \(D=d+d^*\) is the Hodge-Dirac operator. The main part of the paper is devoted to prove estimates for solutions \(\omega\) of the Dirac-harmonic equation such as Caccioppoli-type, Poincaré, Sobolev and weak reverse Hölder inequalities.