Smallest-eigenvalue weights for even-dimensional spin Grassmannians

Let G2k,2=SO(2k+2)/(SO(2k)×SO(2))G_{2k,2\ell}=SO(2k+2\ell)/(SO(2k)\times SO(2\ell)) be the even-dimensional spin Grassmannian, and let the spinor-bundle decomposition be the one described in the preceding decomposition claim. Suppose k\ell\leq k. Smallest-eigenvalue weight conjecture. Exactly 22^\ell weights in the spinor-bundle decomposition are associated with the smallest eigenvalue of the square of the Dirac operator; they are

(kλ1,(1)λ1λ2,,1λ1λ,0λλ1,,λ),(\ell^{k-\lambda_1},(\ell-1)^{\lambda_1-\lambda_2},\ldots,1^{\lambda_{\ell-1}-\lambda_\ell},0^{\lambda_\ell}\mid\lambda_1,\ldots,\lambda_\ell),

where λj{j+1,j}\lambda_j\in\{\ell-j+1,\ell-j\}. This conjecture identifies the full family of weights contributing to the lowest Dirac eigenspace, complementing the preceding proposition for the value of the smallest eigenvalue; no resolution is supplied.

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Frank Klinker, “The decomposition of the spinor bundle of Grassmann manifolds”, arXiv:0710.3245 (2007).

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