Dirac operators on coset spaces

DOI10.1063/1.1607514zbMATH Open1062.58032arXivhep-th/0210297OpenAlexW1991435313MaRDI QIDQ4833141FDOQ4833141

Authors: G. Immirzi, Joohan Lee, P. Prešnajder, A. P. Balachandran 

Publication date: 14 December 2004

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Dirac operator for a manifold Q, and its chirality operator when Q is even dimensional, have a central role in noncommutative geometry. We systematically develop the theory of this operator when Q=G/H, where G and H are compact connected Lie groups and G is simple. An elementary discussion of the differential geometric and bundle theoretic aspects of G/H, including its projective modules and complex, Kaehler and Riemannian structures, is presented for this purpose. An attractive feature of our approach is that it transparently shows obstructions to spin- and spin_c-structures. When a manifold is spin_c and not spin, U(1) gauge fields have to be introduced in a particular way to define spinors. Likewise, for manifolds like SU(3)/SO(3), which are not even spin_c, we show that SU(2) and higher rank gauge fields have to be introduced to define spinors. This result has potential consequences for string theories if such manifolds occur as D-branes. The spectra and eigenstates of the Dirac operator on spheres S^n=SO(n+1)/SO(n), invariant under SO(n+1), are explicitly found. Aspects of our work overlap with the earlier research of Cahen et al..

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0210297

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50) Noncommutative global analysis, noncommutative residues (58J42) Noncommutative geometry in quantum theory (81R60)

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