Dirac spectral flow on contact three manifolds I: Eigensection estimates and spectral asymmetry

Abstract: Let

Y

be a compact, oriented 3-manifold with a contact form

a

and a metric

d s^{2}

. Suppose that

F o Y

is a principal bundle with structure group

U (2) = S U (2) i m e s_{p m 1} S^{1}

such that

F / S^{1}

is the principal SO(3) bundle of orthonormal frames for

T Y

. A unitary connection

A_{0}

on the Hermitian line bundle

F i m e s_{d e t U (2)} m a t h b b C

determines a self-adjoint Dirac operator

D_{0}

on the

m a t h b b C^{2}

-bundle

F i m e s_{U (2)} m a t h b b C^{2}

. The contact form

a

can be used to perturb the connection

A_{0}

by

A_{0} - i r a

. This associates a one parameter family of Dirac operators

D_{r}

for

r g e q 0

. When

r > > 1

, we establish a sharp sup-norm estimate on the eigensections of

D_{r}

with small eigenvalues. The sup-norm estimate can be applied to study the asymptotic behavior of the spectral flow from

D_{0}

to

D_{r}

. In particular, it implies that the subleading order term of the spectral flow is strictly smaller than the order of

r^{f r a c 32}

. We also relate the

e t a

-invariant of

D_{r}

to certain spectral asymmetry function involving only the small eigenvalues of

D_{r}

.

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