Vafa-Witten Estimates for Compact Symmetric Spaces

Abstract

We give an optimal upper bound for the first eigenvalue of the untwisted Dirac operator on a compact symmetric space G/H with rk G-rk H 1 with respect to arbitrary Riemannian metrics. We also prove a rigidity statement.

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