Spectral flow of Dirac operators with magnetic cable knot

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Authors: Jérémy Sok, J. P. Solovej 

Publication date: 4 February 2019

Abstract: We study the spectral flow of Dirac operators with magnetic links on $mathbb{S}^3$. These are generalisations of Aharonov-Bohm solenoids where the magnetic fields contain finitely many field lines coinciding with the components of a link, the flux of each exhibiting the same $2pi$-periodicity as A-B solenoids. We study the spectral flow of the loop obtained as tuning the flux from $0$ to $2pi$ in the case of only one field line: we relate the spectral flows obtained for one given knot and its cable knots, and obtain that torus knots have trivial spectral flow. The operators are studied in their Coulomb gauge in $mathbb{R}^3$ (seen as a chart of $mathbb{S}^3$ through the stereographic projection), which is simply given by the Biot and Savart formula.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spectral theory; eigenvalue problems on manifolds (58C40) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Spectral flows (58J30)

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