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On a compact Riemannian spin manifold with mean-convex boundary, we analyse the ellipticity and the symmetry of four boundary conditions for the fundamental Dirac operator including the (global) APS condition and a Riemannian version of the (local) MIT bag condition. We show that Friedrich's inequality for the eigenvalues of the Dirac operator on closed spin manifolds holds for the corresponding four eigenvalue boundary problems. More precisely, we prove that, for both the APS and the MIT conditions, the equality cannot be achieved, and for the other two conditions, the equality characterizes respectively half-spheres and domains bounded by minimal hypersurfaces in manifolds carrying non-trivial real Killing spinors.
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Received: 12 November 2001 / Accepted: 25 June 2002 Published online: 21 October 2002
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Hijazi, O., Montiel, S. & Roldán, A. Eigenvalue Boundary Problems for the Dirac Operator. Commun. Math. Phys. 231, 375–390 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-002-0725-0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-002-0725-0