Schrödinger Operators, Integral Curvature, and the Euler Characteristic of Riemannian Manifolds
We establish new connections between integral curvature bounds and the Euler characteristic of closed Riemannian manifolds through the perspective of Schrödinger-type operators. Central to our approach is the twisted Dirac operator \(\mathcal{D}_θ\), whose index equals \(χ(M)\). Under integral smallness conditions on the negative part...