Some examples of Dirac-harmonic maps

DOI10.1007/S11005-018-1134-4MaRDI QIDQ2000938zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Bernd Ammann, Nicolas Ginoux

Publication date 1 July 2019

Published in Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.09859

zbMATH Keywords

Dirac-harmonic mapstwistor spinors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Twistor methods in differential geometry (53C28) Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43) Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20)

Abstract: We discuss a method to construct Dirac-harmonic maps developed by J.~Jost, X.~Mo and M.~Zhu in J.~Jost, X.~Mo, M.~Zhu, emph{Some explicit constructions of Dirac-harmonic maps}, J. Geom. Phys. extbf{59} (2009), no. 11, 1512--1527.The method uses harmonic spinors and twistor spinors, and mainly applies to Dirac-harmonic maps of codimension $1$ with target spaces of constant sectional curvature.Before the present article, it remained unclear when the conditions of the theorems in J.~Jost, X.~Mo, M.~Zhu, emph{Some explicit constructions of Dirac-harmonic maps}, J. Geom. Phys. extbf{59} (2009), no. 11, 1512--1527, were fulfilled. We show that for isometric immersions into spaceforms, these conditions are fulfilled only under special assumptions.In several cases we show the existence of solutions.

Review text

There has been a considerable interest for Dirac-harmonic maps in geometric analysis in recent years. As a matter of fact, Dirac-harmonic maps are the fermionic analogue of the harmonic map equation. While harmonic maps are stationary points of the classical energy functional \(f\mapsto\frac{1}{2}\int_M |\mathrm{d}f|^2 \mathrm{d} v^M\), Dirac-harmonic maps are stationary points of the functional \((f,\Phi)\mapsto \frac{1}{2}\int_M(|\mathrm{d}f|^2 +<\Phi,D^f\Phi>)\mathrm{d} v^M\) which is interpreted as the fermionic counterpart of the classical energy functional. In a previous paper [Calc. Var. Partial Differ. Equ. 47, No. 3--4, 739--762 (2013; Zbl 1275.58010)], the authors proved an existence result for Dirac-harmonic maps by using index-theoretical tools. In the current paper, the authors improve the results in [\textit{J. Jost} et al., J. Geom. Phys. 59, No. 11, 1512--1527 (2009; Zbl 1183.58011)] and construct new explicit examples of Dirac-harmonic maps.

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