Spectral analysis of the Dirac operator on a 3-sphere

DOI10.7153/OAM-2018-12-31zbMATH Open1394.35390arXiv1605.08589OpenAlexW3099313912WikidataQ129713142 ScholiaQ129713142MaRDI QIDQ3174843FDOQ3174843

Michael Levitin, Dmitri Vassiliev, Yan-Long Fang

Publication date: 18 July 2018

Published in: Operators and Matrices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the (massless) Dirac operator on a 3-sphere equipped with Riemannian metric. For the standard metric the spectrum is known. In particular, the eigenvalues closest to zero are the two double eigenvalues +3/2 and -3/2. Our aim is to analyse the behaviour of eigenvalues when the metric is perturbed in an arbitrary smooth fashion from the standard one. We derive explicit perturbation formulae for the two eigenvalues closest to zero, taking account of the second variations. Note that these eigenvalues remain double eigenvalues under perturbations of the metric: they cannot split because of a particular symmetry of the Dirac operator in dimension three (it commutes with the antilinear operator of charge conjugation). Our perturbation formulae show that in the first approximation our two eigenvalues maintain symmetry about zero and are completely determined by the increment of Riemannian volume. Spectral asymmetry is observed only in the second approximation of the perturbation process. As an example we consider a special family of metrics, the so-called generalized Berger spheres, for which the eigenvalues can be evaluated explicitly.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.08589

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zbMATH Keywords

Dirac operatorspectral asymmetrygeneralized Berger spheres

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Estimates of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P15) Time-dependent Schrödinger equations and Dirac equations (35Q41) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50)

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