Dominant Energy Condition and Spinors on Lorentzian Manifolds

DOI10.1142/9789811273230_0016zbMATH Open1528.53063arXiv2103.11032MaRDI QIDQ6178089FDOQ6178089

Authors: Bernd Ammann 

Publication date: 1 September 2023

Published in: Perspectives in Scalar Curvature (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $(overlineM,overlineg)$ be a time- and space-oriented Lorentzian spin manifold, and let $M$ be a compact spacelike hypersurface of $overlineM$ with induced Riemannian metric $g$ and second fundamental form $K$. If $(overlineM,overlineg)$ satisfies the dominant energy condition in a strict sense, then the Dirac--Witten operator of $MsubseteqoverlineM$ is an invertible, self-adjoint Fredholm operator. This allows us to use index theoretical methods in order to detect non-trivial homotopy groups in the space of initial on $M$ satisfying the dominant energy condition in a strict sense. The central tool will be a Lorentzian analogue of Hitchin's $alpha$-invariant. In case that the dominant energy condition only holds in a weak sense, the Dirac--Witten operator may be non-invertible, and we will study the kernel of this operator in this case. We will show that the kernel may only be non-trivial if $p{i}_1(M)$ is virtually solvable of derived length at most $2$. This allows to extend the index theoretical methods to spaces of initial data, satisfying the dominant energy condition in the weak sense. We will show further that a spinor $phi$ is in the kernel of the Dirac--Witten operator on $(M,g,K)$ if and only if $(M,g,K,phi)$ admits an extension to a Lorentzian manifold $(overlineN,overlineh)$ with parallel spinor $$ such that $M$ is a Cauchy hypersurface of $(overlineN,overlineh)$, such that $g$ and $K$ are the induced metric and second fundamental form of $M$, respectively, and $phi$ is the restriction of $$ to $M$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.11032

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zbMATH Keywords

Lorentzian manifoldsparallel spinorsCauchy problemshomotopy groupsenergy conditionsinitial data sets

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(Semi-) Fredholm operators; index theories (47A53) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Index theory and related fixed-point theorems on manifolds (58J20) Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60) Homotopy groups, general; sets of homotopy classes (55Q05)

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