Dirac operator on spinors and diffeomorphisms

Abstract: The issue of general covariance of spinors and related objects is reconsidered. Given an oriented manifold

M

, to each spin structure

s i g m a

and Riemannian metric

g

there is associated a space

S_{s i g m a, g}

of spinor fields on

M

and a Hilbert space

H H_{s i g m a, g} = L^{2} (S_{s i g m a, g}, v o l M g)

of

L^{2}

-spinors of

S_{s i g m a, g}

. The group

d i f f M

of orientation-preserving diffeomorphisms of

M

acts both on

g

(by pullback) and on

[s i g m a]

(by a suitably defined pullback

f^{*} s i g m a

). Any

f i n d i f f M

lifts in exactly two ways to a unitary operator

U

from

H H_{s i g m a, g}

to

H H_{f^{*} s i g m a, f^{*} g}

. The canonically defined Dirac operator is shown to be equivariant with respect to the action of

U

, so in particular its spectrum is invariant under the diffeomorphisms.

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