Manifolds with small Dirac eigenvalues are nilmanifolds

Consider the class of n-dimensional Riemannian spin manifolds with bounded sectional curvatures and bounded diameter, and almost non-negative scalar curvature. Let r = 1 if n = 2,3 and r = 2^[n/2]-1 + 1 if n ≥ 4. We show that if the square of the Dirac operator on such a manifold has r small eigenvalues, then the manifold is diffeomorphic to a nilmanifold and has trivial spin structure. Equivalently, if M is not a nilmanifold or if M is a nilmanifold with a non-trivial spin structure, then there exists a uniform lower bound on the r-th eigenvalue of the square of the Dirac operator. If a manifold with almost non-negative scalar curvature has one small Dirac eigenvalue, and if the volume is not too small, then we show that the metric is close to a Ricci-flat metric on M with a parallel spinor. In dimension 4 this implies that M is either a torus or a K3-surface.      

Deforming the point spectra of one-dimensional Dirac operators

We provide a method of inserting and removing any finite number of prescribed eigenvalues into spectral gaps of a given one-dimensional Dirac operator. This is done in such a way that the original and deformed operators are unitarily equivalent when restricted to the complement of the subspace spanned by the newly inserted eigenvalue. Moreover, the unitary transformation operator which links the original operator to its deformed version is explicitly determined.

     

On the approximation of isolated eigenvalues of ordinary differential operators

We extend a result of Stolz and Weidmann on the approximation of isolated eigenvalues of singular Sturm-Liouville and Dirac operators by the eigenvalues of regular operators.

     

Extrinsic estimates for eigenvalues of the Dirac operator

For a compact spin manifold M isometrically embedded into Euclidean space, we derive the extrinsic estimates from above and below for eigenvalues of the square of the Dirac operator, which depend on the second fundamental form of the embedding. We also show the bounds of the ratio of the eigenvalues. Since the unit sphere and the projective spaces admit the standard embedding into Euclidean spaces, we also obtain the corresponding results for their compact spin submanifolds.     

Multiplicities of the eigenvalues of periodic Dirac operators

Let us consider the Dirac operator

     

Dirac Eigenvalues for Generic Metrics on Three-Manifolds

We show that for generic Riemannian metrics on a closed spin manifold of dimension three the Dirac operator has only simple eigenvalues.     

Sinc-based computations of eigenvalues of Dirac systems

The celebrated classical sampling theorem is used to compute approximate values of the eigenvalues of Dirac systems with eigenvalue parameter in the boundary conditions. We deal with problems with an eigenparameter in one or two boundary conditions. The error analysis is established considering both truncation and amplitude errors associated with the sampling theorem. We indicate the role of the amplitude error as well as other parameters in the method via illustrative examples. AMS subject classification (2000)  34L16, 65L15, 94A20     

The first Dirac eigenvalues on manifolds with positive scalar curvature

We show that on every compact spin manifold admitting a Riemannian metric of positive scalar curvature Friedrich's eigenvalue estimate for the Dirac operator can be made sharp up to an arbitrarily small given error by choosing the metric suitably.

     

Oscillation of solutions of a boundary value problem for Dirac canonical system

A theorem is proved on oscillation of the components of the eigenvector-functions of a boundary value problem for the canonical one-dimensional Dirac system.     

Twistor Operators and Eigenvalues of the Dirac Operator on Compact Quaternion-Kähler Spin Manifolds

Quaternion-Kähler twistor operators are introduced. Using these operators with the Lichnerowicz formula, we get lower bounds for the square of the eigenvalues of the Dirac operator in terms of the eigenvalues of the fundamental 4-form.     

A Lie algebra containing four parameters for the generalized Dirac hierarchy

A Lie algebra containing four parameters is obtained, whose commutation operation is concise, and the corresponding computing formula of constant γ in the variational identity is presented in this paper. As application, a new Liouville integrable hierarchy which can be reduced to Dirac hierarchy is derived by designing a special isospectral problem. We call it generalized Dirac hierarchy.     

On the distribution of Laplacian eigenvalues of trees

For a tree T$T$ with n$n$ vertices, we apply an algorithm due to Jacobs and Trevisan (2011) to study how the number of small Laplacian eigenvalues behaves when the tree is transformed by a transformation defined by Mohar (2007). This allows us to obtain a new bound for the number of eigenvalues that are smaller than 2. We also report our progress towards a conjecture on the number of eigenvalues that are smaller than the average degree.     

The Proof of the Dirac Conjecture for a Class of Finite-Dimensional Dirac Hamiltonian Systems

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Persistence of embedded eigenvalues

We consider conditions under which an embedded eigenvalue of a self-adjoint operator remains embedded under small perturbations. In the case of a simple eigenvalue embedded in continuous spectrum of multiplicity m<∞ we show that in favorable situations, the set of small perturbations of a suitable Banach space which do not remove the eigenvalue form a smooth submanifold of codimension m. We also have results regarding the cases when the eigenvalue is degenerate or when the multiplicity of the continuous spectrum is infinite.     

Discrete Dirac systems on the semiaxis: rational reflection coefficients and Weyl functions

We consider the cases of the self-adjoint and skew-self-adjoint discrete Dirac systems, obtain explicit expressions for reflection coefficients and show that rational reflection coefficients and Weyl functions coincide.     

Dirac Operators on Hermitian Spin Surfaces

We prove the conformal invariance of the dimension of thekernel of any of the self-adjoint Dirac operators associated to thecanonical Hermitian connections on Hermitian spin surface. In the caseof a surface of nonnegative conformal scalar curvature we estimate thefirst eigenvalue of the self-adjoint Dirac operator associated to theChern connection and list the surfaces on which its kernel isnontrivial.     

Prescribing eigenvalues of the Dirac operator

In this note we show that every compact spin manifold of dimension ≥3 can be given a Riemannian metric for which a finite part of the spectrum of the Dirac operator consists of arbitrarily prescribed eigenvalues with multiplicity 1.