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Some questions on the nodal geometry of Dirac operators

Let me begin by quoting a well-known result of Christian Baer (see here). The result goes as follows:

Theorem (Baer): Consider a connected $n$-dimensional Riemannian manifold with Dirac bundle $S$ and generalized Dirac operator $D$. Let $h$ be a smooth endomorphism field for $S$ and $s$ be a non-zero solution of $(D + h)s = 0$. Then the nodal set $N_h$ of $s$ has Hausdorff dimension $(n - 2)$ at most.

The proof actually gives more information, I have only mentioned the salient parts that pertain to my questions, which are as follows:

(a) Are sufficient conditions known so that the $(n - 2)$-dimensional Hausdorff measure of $N_h$ is non-zero?

(b) Are there (upper and lower) estimates on the $(n - 2)$-dimensional Hausdorff measure of $N_h$ in terms of $h$?

This is mainly a reference request.

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