The topology and geometry of self-adjoint and elliptic boundary conditions for Dirac and Laplace operators

DOI10.1142/S0219887815610071zbMATH Open1331.58021arXiv1510.08136WikidataQ62560978 ScholiaQ62560978MaRDI QIDQ3455873FDOQ3455873

Authors: Manuel Asorey, A. Ibort, Giuseppe Marmo 

Publication date: 11 December 2015

Published in: International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The theory of self-adjoint extensions of first and second order elliptic differential operators on manifolds with boundary is studied via its most representative instances: Dirac and Laplace operators. The theory is developed by exploiting the geometrical structures attached to them and, by using an adapted Cayley transform on each case, the space $mathcalM$ of such extensions is shown to have a canonical group composition law structure. The obtained results are compared with von Neumann's Theorem characterising the self-adjoint extensions of densely defined symmetric operators on Hilbert spaces. The 1D case is thoroughly investigated. The geometry of the submanifold of elliptic self-adjoint extensions $mathcal{M}_{m}athrmellip$ is studied and it is shown that it is a Lagrangian submanifold of the universal Grassmannian $mathbfGr$. The topology of $mathcal{M}_{m}athrmellip$ is also explored and it is shown that there is a canonical cycle whose dual is the Maslov class of the manifold. Such cycle, called the Cayley surface, plays a relevant role in the study of the phenomena of topology change. Self-adjoint extensions of Laplace operators are discussed in the path integral formalism, identifying a class of them for which both treatments leads to the same results. A theory of dissipative quantum systems is proposed based on this theory and a unitarization theorem for such class of dissipative systems is proved. The theory of self-adjoint extensions with symmetry of Dirac operators is also discussed and a reduction theorem for the self-adjoint elliptic Grasmmannian is obtained. Finally, an interpretation of spontaneous symmetry breaking is offered from the point of view of the theory of self-adjoint extensions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.08136

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zbMATH Keywords

Laplace operatorelliptic operatorDirac operatorCayley transformself-adjoint extension

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) Time-dependent Schrödinger equations and Dirac equations (35Q41) Elliptic equations on manifolds, general theory (58J05)

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