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We define a canonical first order differential operator A : C ∞(X;S) → C ∞(X;S), called the Diras operator of S. Next we find the principal symbols of A and A 2 and show that A is formally self-adjoint with an explicit Green’s formula.
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Booß-Bavnbek, B., Wojciechowski, K.P. (1993). Dirac Operators. In: Elliptic Boundary Problems for Dirac Operators. Mathematics: Theory & Applications. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0337-7_3
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