eprintid: 10198158 rev_number: 9 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/19/81/58 datestamp: 2024-10-08 13:15:33 lastmod: 2024-10-08 13:15:33 status_changed: 2024-10-08 13:15:33 type: article metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Karpukhin, Mikhail creators_name: Métras, Antoine creators_name: Polterovich, Iosif title: Dirac Eigenvalue Optimisation and Harmonic Maps to Complex Projective Spaces ispublished: inpress divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: C06 divisions: F59 note: © The Author(s) 2024. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permission@oup.com. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. abstract: Consider a Dirac operator on an oriented compact surface endowed with a Riemannian metric and spin structure. Provided the area and the conformal class are fixed, how small can the $k$-th positive Dirac eigenvalue be? This problem mirrors the maximization problem for the eigenvalues of the Laplacian, which is related to the study of harmonic maps into spheres. We uncover the connection between the critical metrics for Dirac eigenvalues and harmonic maps into complex projective spaces. Using this approach we show that for many conformal classes on a torus the first nonzero Dirac eigenvalue is minimised by the flat metric. We also present a new geometric proof of Bär’s theorem stating that the first nonzero Dirac eigenvalue on the sphere is minimised by the standard round metric. date: 2024-10-03 date_type: published publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP) official_url: https://doi.org/10.1093/imrn/rnae216 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 2324943 doi: 10.1093/imrn/rnae216 lyricists_name: Karpukhin, Mikhail lyricists_id: MKARP96 actors_name: Karpukhin, Mikhail actors_id: MKARP96 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: International Mathematics Research Notices article_number: rnae216 issn: 1073-7928 citation: Karpukhin, Mikhail; Métras, Antoine; Polterovich, Iosif; (2024) Dirac Eigenvalue Optimisation and Harmonic Maps to Complex Projective Spaces. International Mathematics Research Notices , Article rnae216. 10.1093/imrn/rnae216 <https://doi.org/10.1093/imrn%2Frnae216>. (In press). Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10198158/7/Karpukhin_rnae216.pdf