Noncommutative potential theory and the sign of the curvature operator in Riemannian geometry

DOI10.1007/S00039-003-0421-ZMaRDI QIDQ1403365zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jean-Luc Sauvageot, Fabio Cipriani

Publication date 1 September 2003

Published in Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00039-003-0421-z

zbMATH Keywords

Dirac Laplacianheat semigroupLaplace-Beltrami operatorRiemannian curvature operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear elliptic equations (35J60) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Noncommutative global analysis, noncommutative residues (58J42)

Review text

The authors study the Dirac Laplacian \(D^2\) on a complete Riemannian manifold \(M\), without boundary, in connection with properties of the associated heat semigroup \(e^{-tD^2}\) and the Dirac-Dirichlet quadratic form \({\mathcal{E}}_D\). The main result is the equivalence of the following properties: (a) The curvature operator is nonnegative; (b) The Dirac Laplacian \(D^2\) generates a \(C^*\)-Markovian semigroup (i.e., a strongly continuous, completely positive, contraction semigroup) on the Clifford \(C^*\)-algebra of \(M\); (c) The quadratic form \({\mathcal{E}}_D\) of \(D^2\) is a \(C^*\)-Dirichlet form.

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