A remark on the space of metrics having nontrivial harmonic spinors

DOI10.1007/S11784-013-0096-5MaRDI QIDQ360537zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors N. Waterstraat

Publication date 27 August 2013

Published in Journal of Fixed Point Theory and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.0499

zbMATH Keywords

spectral flowharmonic spinors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Manifolds of metrics (especially Riemannian) (58D17) Spectral flows (58J30)

Abstract: Let M be a closed spin manifold of dimension congruent to 3 modulo 4. We give a simple proof of the fact that the space of metrics on M with invertible Dirac operator is either empty or it has infinitely many path components.

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