The Dirac operator on Lorentzian spin manifolds and the Huygens property

DOI10.1016/S0393-0440(96)00045-9MaRDI QIDQ1364347zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Helga Baum

Publication date 6 January 1999

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/S0393-0440(96)00045-9

zbMATH Keywords

Dirac operatorHuygens principleLorentzian spin manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Particular ordinary differential operators (Dirac, one-dimensional Schrödinger, etc.) (34L40) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Specialized structures on manifolds (spin manifolds, framed manifolds, etc.) (57R15) Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25)

Review text

The author investigates the Huygens property for the square \(D^2\) of the Dirac operator of a Lorentzian spin manifold of even dimension \(n\geq 4\). She proves that the operator \(D^2-K\) is of Huygens type if the underlying Lorentzian spin manifold has constant sectional curvature \(K\). Furthermore, \(D^2\) is of Huygens type on a plane wave manifold. Finally, the square of twisted Dirac operators on four-dimensional manifolds is considered. The author proves that the Huygens property of these operators implies that the coupling connection is flat and that the manifold belongs to one of three special classes of Lorentzian manifolds.

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