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Preprint . 2026
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License: CC BY
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Preprint . 2026
License: CC BY
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Heat Kernel Structure and the Spectral Action: Twisted Dirac Operators, Clifford Contraction, and UV–IR Complementarity

Authors: Kim, Andrew;

Heat Kernel Structure and the Spectral Action: Twisted Dirac Operators, Clifford Contraction, and UV–IR Complementarity

Abstract

This work analyzes the geometric origin of the bosonic sector of the spectral action for twisted Dirac operators on compact four-dimensional Riemannian spin manifolds. The paper shows that the gravitational and gauge contributions arise directly from the heat-kernel expansion of the squared Dirac operator. Three structural mechanisms are identified. First, the Yang–Mills curvature density follows from the Clifford algebra contraction of the bundle curvature appearing in the Weitzenböck decomposition of the twisted Dirac square. This demonstrates that the gauge term is not introduced externally but is forced by the algebraic structure of the operator. Second, the spectral action admits a Laplace–Mellin representation that separates ultraviolet and infrared regimes of the heat trace. The short-time regime determines the local geometric invariants appearing in the heat coefficients, while the long-time regime reflects the low-energy spectral structure of the operator. Third, the limits corresponding to short heat-kernel time, large spectral cutoff, and long heat-kernel time provide complementary descriptions of the same spectral object. Respectively, these regimes encode local geometry, the asymptotic expansion of the spectral action, and the projection onto the low-energy spectral subspace. Using the standard heat-kernel coefficient framework for Laplace-type operators, the first three coefficients of the twisted Dirac square generate the hierarchy of bosonic contributions: a volume term, a scalar curvature term, and curvature-squared terms that include the Yang–Mills density derived from the bundle curvature. The analysis shows that the Einstein-type and Yang–Mills-type sectors of the four-dimensional spectral action arise from a unified operator-theoretic structure encoded in the twisted Dirac operator.

Keywords

heat kernel expansion, spin geometry, Dirac operators, Yang–Mills theory, spectral geometry, spectral action

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