Harmonic spinors on the Davis hyperbolic 4-manifold

In this paper, we use the [Formula: see text]-spin theorem to show that the Davis hyperbolic 4-manifold admits harmonic spinors. This is the first example of a closed hyperbolic 4-manifold that admits harmonic spinors. We also explicitly describe the spinor bundle of a spin hyperbolic 2- or 4-manifold and show how to calculated the subtle sign terms in the [Formula: see text]-spin theorem for an isometry, with isolated fixed points, of a closed spin hyperbolic 2- or 4-manifold.