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Surgery and Harmonic Spinors

Bernd Ammann, Mattias Dahl, Emmanuel Humbert

math.DGarXiv:math/0606224

Abstract

Let M be a compact manifold with a fixed spin structure χ. The Atiyah-Singer index theorem implies that for any metric g on M the dimension of the kernel of the Dirac operator is bounded from below by a topological quantity depending only on M and χ. We show that for generic metrics on M this bound is attained.

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