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    A holographic principle for the existence of parallel spinor fields and an inequality of Shi-Tam type

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    Suppose that Σ=∂M\Sigma=\partial M is the nn-dimensional boundary of a connected compact Riemannian spin manifold (M,⟨  ,  ⟩)( M,\langle\;,\;\rangle) with non-negative scalar curvature, and that the (inward) mean curvature HH of Σ\Sigma is positive. We show that the first eigenvalue of the Dirac operator of the boundary corresponding to the conformal metric ⟨  ,  ⟩H=H2⟨  ,  ⟩\langle\;,\;\rangle_H=H^2\langle\;,\;\rangle is at least n/2n/2 and equality holds if and only if there exists a parallel spinor field on M M. As a consequence, if Σ\Sigma admits an isometric and isospin immersion ϕ\phi with mean curvature H0H_0 as a hypersurface into another spin Riemannian manifold M0 M_0 admitting a parallel spinor field, then \begin{equation} \label{HoloIneq} \int_\Sigma H\,d\Sigma\le \int_\Sigma \frac{H^2_0}{H}\, d\Sigma \end{equation} and equality holds if and only if both immersions have the same shape operator. In this case, Σ\Sigma has to be also connected. In the special case where M0=Rn+1M_0=\R^{n+1}, equality in (\ref{HoloIneq}) implies that MM is an Euclidean domain and ϕ\phi is congruent to the embedding of Σ\Sigma in MM as its boundary. We also prove that Inequality (\ref{HoloIneq}) implies the Positive Mass Theorem (PMT). Note that, using the PMT and the additional assumption that ϕ\phi is a strictly convex embedding into the Euclidean space, Shi and Tam \cite{ST1} proved the integral inequality \begin{equation}\label{shi-tam-Ineq} \int_\Sigma H\,d\Sigma\le \int_\Sigma H_0\, d\Sigma, \end{equation} which is stronger than (\ref{HoloIneq}) .Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1502.0408
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