Extremality for the Vafa-Witten bound on the sphere

DOI10.1007/S00039-005-0536-5zbMATH Open1137.53334arXivmath/0407530OpenAlexW1966058408MaRDI QIDQ817665FDOQ817665

Authors: Marc Herzlich 

Publication date: 17 March 2006

Published in: Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that the round metric on the sphere has the largest first eigenvalue of the Dirac operator among all metrics that are larger than it. As a corollary, this gives an alternative proof of an extremality result for scalar curvature due to M. Llarull.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0407530

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Spectral theory; eigenvalue problems on manifolds (58C40)

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