TY - JOUR A1 - Bär, Christian A1 - Strohmaier, Alexander T1 - A Rigorous Geometric Derivation of the Chiral Anomaly in Curved Backgrounds JF - Communications in mathematical physics N2 - We discuss the chiral anomaly for a Weyl field in a curved background and show that a novel index theorem for the Lorentzian Dirac operator can be applied to describe the gravitational chiral anomaly. A formula for the total charge generated by the gravitational and gauge field background is derived directly in Lorentzian signature and in a mathematically rigorous manner. It contains a term identical to the integrand in the Atiyah-Singer index theorem and another term involving the.-invariant of the Cauchy hypersurfaces. Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-016-2664-1 SN - 0010-3616 SN - 1432-0916 VL - 347 SP - 703 EP - 721 PB - Springer CY - New York ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bär, Christian A1 - Strohmaier, Alexander T1 - An index theorem for Lorentzian manifolds with compact spacelike Cauchy boundary JF - American Journal of Mathematics N2 - We show that the Dirac operator on a compact globally hyperbolic Lorentzian spacetime with spacelike Cauchy boundary is a Fredholm operator if appropriate boundary conditions are imposed. We prove that the index of this operator is given by the same expression as in the index formula of Atiyah-Patodi-Singer for Riemannian manifolds with boundary. The index is also shown to equal that of a certain operator constructed from the evolution operator and a spectral projection on the boundary. In case the metric is of product type near the boundary a Feynman parametrix is constructed. Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1353/ajm.2019.0037 SN - 0002-9327 SN - 1080-6377 VL - 141 IS - 5 SP - 1421 EP - 1455 PB - Johns Hopkins Univ. Press CY - Baltimore ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bär, Christian A1 - Pfaeffle, Frank T1 - Asymptotic heat kernel expansion in the semi-classical limit N2 - Let H-h = h(2)L + V, where L is a self-adjoint Laplace type operator acting on sections of a vector bundle over a compact Riemannian manifold and V is a symmetric endomorphism field. We derive an asymptotic expansion for the heat kernel of H-h as h SE arrow 0. As a consequence we get an asymptotic expansion for the quantum partition function and we see that it is asymptotic to the classical partition function. Moreover, we show how to bound the quantum partition function for positive h by the classical partition function. Y1 - 2010 UR - http://www.springerlink.com/content/100467 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-009-0973-3 SN - 0010-3616 ER - TY - INPR A1 - Bär, Christian A1 - Ballmann, Werner T1 - Boundary value problems for elliptic differential operators of first order N2 - We study boundary value problems for linear elliptic differential operators of order one. The underlying manifold may be noncompact, but the boundary is assumed to be compact. We require a symmetry property of the principal symbol of the operator along the boundary. This is satisfied by Dirac type operators, for instance. We provide a selfcontained introduction to (nonlocal) elliptic boundary conditions, boundary regularity of solutions, and index theory. In particular, we simplify and generalize the traditional theory of elliptic boundary value problems for Dirac type operators. We also prove a related decomposition theorem, a general version of Gromov and Lawson's relative index theorem and a generalization of the cobordism theorem. T3 - Preprints des Instituts für Mathematik der Universität Potsdam - 1(2012)18 KW - Elliptic operators KW - elliptic boundary conditions KW - completeness KW - coercivity KW - boundary regularity Y1 - 2012 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-60023 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bär, Christian A1 - Bandara, Lashi T1 - Boundary value problems for general first-order elliptic differential operators JF - Journal of functional analysis N2 - We study boundary value problems for first-order elliptic differential operators on manifolds with compact boundary. The adapted boundary operator need not be selfadjoint and the boundary condition need not be pseudo-local.We show the equivalence of various characterisations of elliptic boundary conditions and demonstrate how the boundary conditions traditionally considered in the literature fit in our framework. The regularity of the solutions up to the boundary is proven. We show that imposing elliptic boundary conditions yields a Fredholm operator if the manifold is compact. We provide examples which are conveniently treated by our methods. KW - elliptic differential operators of firstorder KW - elliptic boundary KW - conditions KW - boundary regularity KW - Fredholm property KW - H-infinity-functional calculus KW - maximal regularity KW - Rarita-Schwinger KW - operator Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfa.2022.109445 SN - 0022-1236 SN - 1096-0783 VL - 282 IS - 12 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam [u.a.] ER - TY - INPR A1 - Bär, Christian A1 - Ginoux, Nicolas T1 - Classical and quantum fields on Lorentzian manifolds N2 - We construct bosonic and fermionic locally covariant quantum fields theories on curved backgrounds for large classes of fields. We investigate the quantum field and n-point functions induced by suitable states. T3 - Preprints des Instituts für Mathematik der Universität Potsdam - 1(2012)15 KW - Wave operator KW - Dirac-type operator KW - globally hyperbolic spacetime KW - Green's operator KW - CCR-algebra Y1 - 2012 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-59973 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bär, Christian A1 - Becker, Christian T1 - Differential characters and geometric chains JF - Lecture notes in mathematics : a collection of informal reports and seminars JF - Lecture Notes in Mathematics N2 - We study Cheeger-Simons differential characters and provide geometric descriptions of the ring structure and of the fiber integration map. The uniqueness of differential cohomology (up to unique natural transformation) is proved by deriving an explicit formula for any natural transformation between a differential cohomology theory and the model given by differential characters. Fiber integration for fibers with boundary is treated in the context of relative differential characters. As applications we treat higher-dimensional holonomy, parallel transport, and transgression. Y1 - 2014 SN - 978-3-319-07034-6; 978-3-319-07033-9 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07034-6_1 SN - 0075-8434 VL - 2112 SP - 1 EP - 90 PB - Springer CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bär, Christian A1 - Gouduchon, Paul A1 - Moroianu, Andrei T1 - Generalized Cylinders in Semi-Riemannian and Spin Geometry N2 - We use a construction which we call generalized cylinders to give a new proof of the fundamental theorem of hypersurface theory. It has the advantage of being very simple and the result directly extends to semi-Riemannian manifolds and to embeddings into spaces of constant curvature. We also give a new way to identify spinors for different metrics and to derive the variation formula for the Dirac operator. Moreover, we show that generalized Killing spinors for Codazzi tensors are restrictions of parallel spinors. Finally, we study the space of Lorentzian metrics and give a criterion when two Lorentzian metrics on a manifold can be joined in a natural manner by a 1-parameter family of such metrics. Y1 - 2005 UR - http://xxx.uni-augsburg.de/abs/math.DG/0303095 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bär, Christian T1 - Geometrically formal 4-manifolds with nonnegative sectional curvature JF - Communications in analysis and geometry N2 - A Riemannian manifold is called geometrically formal if the wedge product of any two harmonic forms is again harmonic. We classify geometrically formal compact 4-manifolds with nonnegative sectional curvature. If the sectional curvature is strictly positive, the manifold must be homeomorphic to S-4 or diffeomorphic to CP2. This conclusion stills holds true if the sectional curvature is strictly positive and we relax the condition of geometric formality to the requirement that the length of harmonic 2-forms is not too nonconstant. In particular, the Hopf conjecture on S-2 x S-2 holds in this class of manifolds. Y1 - 2015 SN - 1019-8385 SN - 1944-9992 VL - 23 IS - 3 SP - 479 EP - 497 PB - International Press of Boston CY - Somerville ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bär, Christian T1 - Green-Hyperbolic Operators on Globally Hyperbolic Spacetimes JF - Communications in mathematical physics N2 - Green-hyperbolic operators are linear differential operators acting on sections of a vector bundle over a Lorentzian manifold which possess advanced and retarded Green's operators. The most prominent examples are wave operators and Dirac-type operators. This paper is devoted to a systematic study of this class of differential operators. For instance, we show that this class is closed under taking restrictions to suitable subregions of the manifold, under composition, under taking "square roots", and under the direct sum construction. Symmetric hyperbolic systems are studied in detail. Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-014-2097-7 SN - 0010-3616 SN - 1432-0916 VL - 333 IS - 3 SP - 1585 EP - 1615 PB - Springer CY - New York ER -