The first eigenvalue of Dirac and Laplace operators on surfaces

Let $(M,g,\sigma)$ be a compact Riemmannian surface equipped with a spin structure $\sigma$. For any metric $\tilde{g}$ on $M$, we denote by $\mu_1(\tilde{g})$ (resp. $\lambda_1(\tilde{g})$) the first positive eigenvalue of the Laplacian (resp. the Dirac operator) with respect to the metric $\tilde{g}$. In this paper, we show that $$\inf \frac{\lambda_1(\tilde{g})^2 }{\mu_1(\tilde{g})} \leqslant \frac{1}{2}.$$ where the infimum is taken over the metrics $\tilde{g}$ conformal to $g$. This answer a question asked by Agricola, Ammann and Friedrich

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Author Grosjean, Jean-Francois, Humbert, Emmanuel
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contributor Institut Élie Cartan de Nancy (IECN) ; Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Université Henri Poincaré - Nancy 1 (UHP)-Université Nancy 2-Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine (INPL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
creator Grosjean, Jean-Francois
date 2006-09-18T00:00:00
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harvest_source_title test moissonnage SELUNE
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