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Surgery and the spectrum of the Dirac operator

Surgery and the spectrum of the Dirac operator

We show that for generic Riemannian metrics on a simply-connected closed spin manifold of dimension ≥ 5 the dimension of the space of harmonic spinors is no larger than it must be by the index theorem.The same result holds for periodic fundamental groups of odd order.The proof is based on …