Mass endomorphism and spinorial Yamabe type problems on conformally flat manifolds

DOI10.4310/CAG.2006.V14.N1.A7zbMATH Open1126.53024arXivmath/0503299MaRDI QIDQ871742FDOQ871742

Emmanuel Humbert, Bernd Ammann, Bertrand Morel

Publication date: 20 March 2007

Published in: Communications in Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let M be a compact manifold equipped with a Riemannian metric g and a spin structure si. We let $lambda(M,[g],si)=in{f}_{ildegin[g]}lambd{a}_1^{+}(ildeg)Vol(M,ildeg{)}^{1/n}$ where $lambd{a}_1^{+}(ildeg)$ is the smallest positive eigenvalue of the Dirac operator D in the metric $ildeg$. A previous result stated that $lambda(M,[g],si)leqlambda(m{S}^n)=fracn2o{m}_n^{1/n}$ 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.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0503299

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zbMATH Keywords

Green functionspin manifoldmass endomorphism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27)

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