Dirac operators on coset spaces

DOI10.1063/1.1607514MaRDI QIDQ4833141zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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)

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

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)

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..

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