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arXiv · 2501.02253

Inner fluctuations and the spectral Einstein functional

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The spectral metric and Einstein functionals defined by two vector fields and Laplace-type operators over vector bundles, giving an interesting example of the spinor connection and square of the Dirac operator. Motivated by the spectral functionals and Dirac operators with inner fluctuations, we give some new spectral functionals which is the extension of spectral functionals for Dirac operators, and compute the spectral Einstein functional for the Dirac operator with inner fluctuations on even-dimensional spin manifolds without boundary.

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Jian Wang, Yong Wang. 2025-06-06. Inner fluctuations and the spectral Einstein functional. https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.02253

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