Spinorial Yamabe-type equations and the B\"ar-Hijazi-Lott invariant

Abstract

We consider on a closed Riemannian spin manifold $(M^n,g,\sigma)$ the spinorial Yamabe type equation $D_g\varphi=\lambda|\varphi|^{\frac{2}{n-1}}\varphi$, where $\varphi$ is a spinor field and $\lambda$ is a positive constant. For a normalized solution $\varphi$ of this equation we find a positive lower bound for $\lambda^2$. As an application we obtain an explicit lower bound of the B\"ar-Hijazi-Lott invariant for some spin manifolds with positive scalar curvature.