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HIRATA, Fum o Professor KIM, Bongsoo V s t ng Professor CHONG, Song-ho Ass stant Professor YOSHIDA, Nor o Ass stant Professor MARUYAMA, Yutaka Post-Doctoral Fellow MIYATA, Tatsuh ko Post-Doctoral Fellow IKUTA, Yasuh ro Post-Doctoral Fellow ISHIZUKA, Ryosuke Post-Doctoral Fellow PHONGPHANPHANEE, Saree Graduate Student YAMAZAKI, Yum Secretary KATAYAMA, Naoko Secretary NAKAJIMA, H kar Secretary YA...

Junko Tanaka,* Keiko Katayama, Junko Matsuo, Tomoyuki Akita, Takako Asao, Masayuki Ohisa, Shinichiro Tsuchiya, and Noriaki Yorioka Department of Epidemiology, Infectious Disease Control and Prevention, Institute of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan Tsuchiya General Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan General Incorporated Association Hiroshima Kidney Organization, Hir...

We compute the axial anomaly for the Taub-NUT metric on R. We show that the axial anomaly for the generalized Taub-NUT metrics introduced by Iwai and Katayama is finite, although the Dirac operator is not Fredholm. We show that the essential spectrum of the Dirac operator is the whole real line. Pacs: 04.62.+v

We find sufficient conditions for the absence of harmonic L spinors on spin manifolds constructed as cone bundles over a compact Kähler base. These conditions are fulfilled for certain perturbations of the Euclidean metric, and also for the generalized Taub-NUT metrics of Iwai-Katayama, thus proving a conjecture of Vişinescu and the second author.

Mohammed ABDELHAKIEM*, Yuuhi ASAI, Hiroaki KAMISHINA, Masaaki KATAYAMA, Yuji UZUKA Department of Animal Surgery, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt Laboratory of Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging, Department of Joint Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Agriculture, Iwate University, Morioka, Japan Laboratory of Veterinary Clinical Radiology, Department of Veterinary Scienc...