Manifolds with small Dirac eigenvalues are nilmanifolds
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Manifolds with small Dirac eigenvalues are nilmanifolds
zbMATH Open document ID: 1127.53041
author: Bernd Ammann
author: Chad Sprouse
published in: Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry
publication date: 2007-06-14T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0403142
review text: It is well known that the spinor bundle of a Riemannian spin manifold \(M\) allows parallel sections only if \(M\) carries special holonomy; this was proved by \textit{N. J. Hitchin} in [Adv. Math. 14, 1--55 (1974; Zbl 0284.58016)]. This paper analyses manifolds carrying almost parallel spinors, i.e., manifolds such that a given number of eigenvalues of either the Bochner Laplacian \(\nabla^*\nabla\) or the Dirac operator \(D\) on the spinor bundle are smaller than a constant that depends on curvature, diameter, etc. Then, similar conclusions about the geometry of \(M\) are possible, which are weaker than in the parallel case. The main tool in the proofs is a Moser iteration. For differential forms, a similar quantitative result has been proved by \textit{P. Petersen} and \textit{C. Sprouse} in [Proceedings of the 5th Pacific Rim geometry conference, 2000. Tohoku Math. Publ. 20, 139--145 (2001; Zbl 1065.53035)]. The main result of the present article concerns the \(r\)-th eigenvalue of the Bochner Laplacian \(\nabla^*\nabla\) on an \(n\)-dimensional manifolds with bounded curvature and diameter, where \(r=2^{[\frac n2]-1}\) for \(n\geq 4\) and~\(r=1\) otherwise. If this eigenvalue is small, then \(M\) is a nilmanifold, equipped with the trivial spin structure. A similar conclusion holds if the \(r\)-th eigenvalue of \(D^2\) is small and the scalar curvature is bounded from below by a small negative constant. An example shows that one cannot choose a smaller \(r\). There is a similar result by \textit{J. Lott} in [Geom. Dedicata 91, 175--196 (2002; Zbl 1001.58020)], where all eigenvalues are controlled. With similar methods, the authors show that if the scalar curvature satisfies \(\roman{scal}\geq n(n-1)\) and there are \(r\) eigenvalues of \(D\) inside \([0,\frac n2+\epsilon)\), then \(M\) is \(C^{1,\alpha}\)-close to a quotient of the standard sphere. The constant \(r\) given here is not optimal; the optimal value of \(r\) has been found later by A. Vargas in his …
reviewed by: Sebastian Goette
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C27
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 58J50
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C20
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C21
zbMATH DE Number: 5164787
zbMATH Keywords: eigenvalue pinching
zbMATH Keywords: almost parallel spinors
zbMATH Keywords: nilmanifolds
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
OpenAlex ID: W2002180464
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DOI: 10.1007/S10455-006-9048-2
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