On the existence of nonlinear Dirac-geodesics on compact manifolds (Q662828)

The paper under review deals with the existence problem of nonlinear Dirac-geodesics on compact Riemannian manifolds. The main result is concerned with the existence of a non-trivial nonlinear Dirac-geodesic on a flat tori with a super-linear nonlinear interaction term. More precisely, it is showed that for any compact Riemannian manifold with ``bumpy'' metric, there exists a non-trivial nonlinear Dirac-geodesic in each bosonic sector if the nonlinearity is cubic or super-cubic and ``large''. The proof is based on a linking argument applied to a strongly indefinite functional on a fibered Hilbert manifold.