Mass endomorphism and spinorial Yamabe type problems on conformally flat manifolds

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Abstract: Let M be a compact manifold equipped with a Riemannian metric g and a spin structure si. We let lambda(M,[g],si)=infildegin[g]lambda1+(ildeg)Vol(M,ildeg)1/n where lambda1+(ildeg) is the smallest positive eigenvalue of the Dirac operator D in the metric ildeg. A previous result stated that lambda(M,[g],si)leqlambda(mSn)=fracn2omn1/n where om_n stands for the volume of the standard n-sphere. In this paper, we study this problem for conformally flat manifolds of dimension n geq 2 such that D is invertible. E.g. we show that strict inequality holds in dimension nequiv0,1,2mod4 if a certain endomorphism does not vanish. Because of its tight relations to the ADM mass in General Relativity, the endomorphism will be called mass endomorphism. We apply the strict inequality to spin-conformal spectral theory and show that the smallest positive Dirac eigenvalue attains its infimum inside the enlarged volume-1-conformal class of g.




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