Wednesday, November 28 | |
Noncommutative Geometry
Time: 14:30
Speaker: Asghar Ghorbanppour (Western) Title: "NCG Learning Seminar: Spin^c Structure and Dirac Operators" Room: MC 107 Abstract: The irreducible (real) Clifford modules play a very important role in the theory of Dirac operators. The obstruction for the existence of such a module in real and complex case is different. For the real one, vector bundle should have vanishing second Stiefel-Whitney class, however, in the complex case the second Stiefel-Whitney class only needs to be mod 2 reduction of an integral class, equivalently, the vector bundle admits a spinc structure. In this talk we will examine the obstruction for the existence of spinc structure, then the construction of complex spinor bundle and the spinc connection on it and finally Dirac operator on the spinor fields will be discussed. | |
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