Existence of metrics with harmonic spinors on closed spin manifolds
Existence of metrics with harmonic spinors on closed spin manifolds
Let be a closed spin manifold of dimension with fixed spin structure .
Harmonic-spinor existence conjecture. There exists a Riemannian metric on such that
The conjecture asks whether every closed spin manifold of dimension at least three admits a metric with a nonzero harmonic spinor for each fixed spin structure. The surrounding discussion records positive results in several dimensions and for spheres, while the general case remains unresolved.
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Simone Farinelli, “Riemannian Metrics and Harmonic Sections of Spinor Bundles”, arXiv:1204.3248 (2024).
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