Fundamental Geometric Structures for the Dirac Equation in General Relativity

We present an axiomatic approach to Dirac's equation in General Relativity based on intrinsically covariant geometric structures. Structure groups and the related principal bundle formulation can be recovered by studying the automorphisms of the theory. Various aspects can be most neatly understood within this context, and a number of questions can be most properly addressed (specifically in view of the formulation of QFT on a curved background). In particular, we clarify the fact that the usual spinor structure can be weakened while retaining all essential physical aspects of the theory.     

Coulomb interaction and semimetal-insulator transition in graphene

The strong Coulomb interaction between massless Dirac fermions can drive a semimetal-insulator transition in single-layer graphene by dynamically generating an excitonic fermion gap. There is a critical interaction strength λc that separates the semimetal phase from the insulator phase. We calculate the specific heat and susceptibility of the system and show that they exhibit distinct behaviors in the semimetal and insulator phases.     

The index of the spin Dirac operator on the weighted projective space and the reciprocity law of the Fourier-Dedekind sum

The main purpose of this paper is to give a geometric interpretation of the reciprocity law of the Fourier-Dedekind sum given by M. Beck and S. Robins. In fact, the V-index of the spin^c Dirac operator on the weighted projective space is equal to the dimension of the space of all weighted homogeneous polynomials of given degree, and this equality gives precisely the Beck-Robins reciprocity law. In this equality, the Fourier-Dedekind sums appear as the localization terms of the V-index of the spin^c Dirac operators and have a relationship to the eta invariants of lens spaces.     

A new two-parameter family of exactly solvable Dirac Hamiltonians

Using the Darboux transformation method, we construct a two-parameter family of exactly solvable Dirac Hamiltonians. We obtain intertwining relations between various members of this family. We study the spectral properties of these Hamiltonians and give explicit expressions for their eigenfunctions. __________ Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 159, No. 2, pp. 243–251, May, 2009.     

Parabolic Dirac operators and the Navier–Stokes equations over time‐varying domains

We consider parabolic Dirac operators which do not involve fractional derivatives and use them to show the solvability of the in‐stationary Navier–Stokes equations over time‐varying domains. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

On the characterization of the smoothness of skew-adjoint potentials in periodic Dirac operators

In this paper we consider periodic Dirac operators with skew-adjoint potentials in a large class of weighted Sobolev spaces. We characterize the smoothness of such potentials by asymptotic properties of the periodic spectrum of the corresponding Dirac operators.     

Seiberg-Witten invariants — An expository account

The Seiberg-Witten monopole equations, and a new invariant for 4-manifolds which results from these equations, are introduced in this paper.     

Functional calculus of Dirac operators and complex perturbations of Neumann and Dirichlet problems

We prove that Neumann, Dirichlet and regularity problems for divergence form elliptic equations in the half-space are well posed in L₂ for small complex L_∞ perturbations of a coefficient matrix which is either real symmetric, of block form or constant. All matrices are assumed to be independent of the transversal coordinate. We solve the Neumann, Dirichlet and regularity problems through a new boundary operator method which makes use of operators in the functional calculus of an underlaying first order Dirac type operator. We establish quadratic estimates for this Dirac operator, which implies that the associated Hardy projection operators are bounded and depend continuously on the coefficient matrix. We also prove that certain transmission problems for k-forms are well posed for small perturbations of block matrices.     

On the spectrum of magnetic Dirac operators with Coulomb-type perturbations

We carry out the spectral analysis of singular matrix valued perturbations of 3-dimensional Dirac operators with variable magnetic field of constant direction. Under suitable assumptions on the magnetic field and on the perturbations, we obtain a limiting absorption principle, we prove the absence of singular continuous spectrum in certain intervals and state properties of the point spectrum. Constant, periodic as well as diverging magnetic fields are covered, and Coulomb potentials up to the physical nuclear charge Z<137 are allowed. The importance of an internal-type operator (a 2-dimensional Dirac operator) is also revealed in our study. The proofs rely on commutator methods.