A Lie-algebraic approach to the local index theorem on compact homogeneous spaces (Q277985): Difference between revisions

The Atiyah-Singer index theorem is a very famous theorem. It seems that the several well-known proofs for the local index theorem in themselves do not become simpler even if we restrict the manifolds under consideration to compact homogeneous spaces. A common feature of the aforementioned proofs is that they use the Riemannian Dirac operator. In this paper, the author uses Kostant's cubic Dirac operator in place of the Riemannian Dirac operator and leads to substantial simplifications.