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The first Dirac eigenvalues on manifolds with positive scalar curvature

Author(s): Christian Bär; Mattias Dahl
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 132 (2004), 3337-3344.
MSC (2000): Primary 53C27
Posted: May 21, 2004
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Abstract: 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.


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Additional Information:

Christian Bär
Affiliation: Institut für Mathematik, Universität Potsdam, PF 601553, 14415 Potsdam, Germany
Email: baer@math.uni-potsdam.de

Mattias Dahl
Affiliation: Institutionen för Matematik, Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, 100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
Email: dahl@math.kth.se

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-04-07427-1
PII: S 0002-9939(04)07427-1
Keywords: Dirac operator, eigenvalue, positive scalar curvature, Friedrich's estimate
Received by editor(s): July 2, 2003
Posted: May 21, 2004
Additional Notes: The first author has been partially supported by the Research and Training Networks HPRN-CT-2000-00101 ``EDGE'' and HPRN-CT-1999-00118 ``Geometric Analysis'' funded by the European Commission.
Communicated by: Józef Dodziuk
Copyright of article: Copyright 2004, American Mathematical Society


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