Almost harmonic spinors

DOI10.1016/J.CRMA.2010.06.010zbMATH Open1198.53049arXiv1011.0951OpenAlexW2964139100MaRDI QIDQ990214FDOQ990214

Jean-François Grosjean, Nicolas Ginoux

Publication date: 6 September 2010

Published in: Comptes Rendus. Mathématique. Académie des Sciences, Paris (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that any closed spin manifold not diffeomorphic to the two-sphere admits a sequence of volume-one-Riemannian metrics for which the smallest non-zero Dirac eigenvalue tends to zero. As an application, we compare the Dirac spectrum with the conformal volume.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.0951

zbMATH Keywords

eigenvalueDirac operatorspin manifoldconformal volume

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20) Particular ordinary differential operators (Dirac, one-dimensional Schrödinger, etc.) (34L40) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43) Spectral theory; eigenvalue problems on manifolds (58C40) Eigenvalue problems for linear operators (47A75)

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Cited In (6)

• A Yamabe type problem on compact spin manifolds
• NONUNITAL SPECTRAL TRIPLES ASSOCIATED TO DEGENERATE METRICS
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• The spinorial energy functional on surfaces
• Tensorial spin-s harmonics
• The $L^2$-harmonic forms on rotationally symmetric Riemannian manifolds revisited

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