Surgery and Harmonic Spinors
by
Bernd Ammann, Mattias Dahl, Emmanuel Humbert


Surgery and Harmonic Spinors (.dvi, .ps,.ps.gz or .pdf)
Adv. Math. 220 no. 2, 523-539 (2009)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aim.2008.09.013

Abstract

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