MPS-RR 2000-3
January 2000

The kernel of Dirac operators on $\S^3$ and $\R^3$

by:

Laszlo Erdos

In this paper we describe an intrinsically geometric way of producing magnetic fields on $\S^3$ and $\R^3$ for which the corresponding Dirac operators have a non-trivial kernel. In many cases we are able to compute the dimension of the kernel. In particular we can give examples where the kernel has any given dimension. This generalizes the examples of Loss and Yau (Commun. Math. Phys. 104 (1986) 283-290).

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This paper has now been published in Rev. Math. Phys 13, 1247-1280 (2001)

The kernel of Dirac operators on $\S^3$ and $\R^3$

Jan Philip Solovej

Laszlo Erdos

Abstract