The spinor and tensor fields with higher spin on spaces of constant curvature

In this article, we give all the Weitzenböck-type formulas among the geometric first-order differential operators on the spinor fields with spin $$j+1/2$$ j + 1 / 2 over Riemannian spin manifolds of constant curvature. Then, we find an explicit factorization formula of the Laplace operator raised to the power $$j+1$$ j + 1 and understand how the spinor fields with spin $$j+1/2$$ j + 1 / 2 are related to the spinors with lower spin. As an application, we calculate the spectra of the operators on the standard sphere and clarify the relation among the spinors from the viewpoint of representation theory. Next we study the case of trace-free symmetric tensor fields with an application to Killing tensor fields. Lastly we discuss the spinor fields coupled with differential forms and give a kind of Hodge–de Rham decomposition on spaces of constant curvature.

Generalization of Kim's Estimates In Terms of the Trace of Divergencefree Symmetric Tensor

In this paper, we generalized E.C. Kim’ s estimates by taking in to account the trace of the divergencefree symmetric tensor non−zero. We have also shown that E.C. Kim’s estimates still valid in case of the trace of the divergencefree symmetric tensor vanished identically. In the equality case, we characterized eta−Killing spinor with Killing pair over the Sasakian spin manifolds.

Skew Killing spinors in four dimensions

This paper is devoted to the classification of 4-dimensional Riemannian spin manifolds carrying skew Killing spinors. A skew Killing spinor $$\psi $$ ψ is a spinor that satisfies the equation $$\nabla _X\psi =AX\cdot \psi $$ ∇ X ψ = A X · ψ with a skew-symmetric endomorphism A. We consider the degenerate case, where the rank of A is at most two everywhere and the non-degenerate case, where the rank of A is four everywhere. We prove that in the degenerate case the manifold is locally isometric to the Riemannian product $${\mathbb {R}}\times N$$ R × N with N having a skew Killing spinor and we explain under which conditions on the spinor the special case of a local isometry to $${\mathbb {S}}^2\times {\mathbb {R}}^2$$ S 2 × R 2 occurs. In the non-degenerate case, the existence of skew Killing spinors is related to doubly warped products whose defining data we will describe.

Width, Largeness and Index Theory

In this note, we review some recent developments related to metric aspects of scalar curvature from the point of view of index theory for Dirac operators. In particular, we revisit index-theoretic approaches to a conjecture of Gromov on the width of Riemannian bands M×[−1,1], and on a conjecture of Rosenberg and Stolz on the non-existence of complete positive scalar curvature metrics on M×R. We show that there is a more general geometric statement underlying both of them implying a quantitative negative upper bound on the infimum of the scalar curvature of a complete metric on M×R if the scalar curvature is positive in some neighborhood. We study (A hat-)iso-enlargeable spin manifolds and related notions of width for Riemannian manifolds from an index-theoretic point of view. Finally, we list some open problems arising in the interplay between index theory, largeness properties and width.

A long neck principle for Riemannian spin manifolds with positive scalar curvature

We develop index theory on compact Riemannian spin manifolds with boundary in the case when the topological information is encoded by bundles which are supported away from the boundary. As a first application, we establish a “long neck principle” for a compact Riemannian spin n-manifold with boundary X, stating that if $${{\,\mathrm{scal}\,}}(X)\ge n(n-1)$$ scal ( X ) ≥ n ( n - 1 ) and there is a nonzero degree map into the sphere $$f:X\rightarrow S^n$$ f : X → S n which is strictly area decreasing, then the distance between the support of $$\text {d}f$$ d f and the boundary of X is at most $$\pi /n$$ π / n . This answers, in the spin setting and for strictly area decreasing maps, a question recently asked by Gromov. As a second application, we consider a Riemannian manifold X obtained by removing k pairwise disjoint embedded n-balls from a closed spin n-manifold Y. We show that if $${{\,\mathrm{scal}\,}}(X)>\sigma >0$$ scal ( X ) > σ > 0 and Y satisfies a certain condition expressed in terms of higher index theory, then the radius of a geodesic collar neighborhood of $$\partial X$$ ∂ X is at most $$\pi \sqrt{(n-1)/(n\sigma )}$$ π ( n - 1 ) / ( n σ ) . Finally, we consider the case of a Riemannian n-manifold V diffeomorphic to $$N\times [-1,1]$$ N × [ - 1 , 1 ] , with N a closed spin manifold with nonvanishing Rosenebrg index. In this case, we show that if $${{\,\mathrm{scal}\,}}(V)\ge \sigma >0$$ scal ( V ) ≥ σ > 0 , then the distance between the boundary components of V is at most $$2\pi \sqrt{(n-1)/(n\sigma )}$$ 2 π ( n - 1 ) / ( n σ ) . This last constant is sharp by an argument due to Gromov.