The analysis of elliptic families. II: Dirac operators, êta invariants, and the holonomy theorem (Q1110884)

In this paper we specialize the results obtained in part I to the case of a family of Dirac operators. We first calculate the curvature of the unitary connection on the determinant bundle which we introduced in part I [ibid. 106, 159-176 (1986); see the preceding review]. We also calculate the odd Chern forms of Quillen for a family of self-adjoint Dirac operators and give a simple proof of certain results of Atiyah- Patodi-Singer on êta invariants. We finally give a heat equation proof of the holonomy theorem, in the form suggested by \textit{E. Witten} [Commun. Math. Phys. 100, 197-229 (1985; Zbl 0581.58038); Anomalies, Geometry, Topology, Symp. Chicago/Ill. 1985, 61-99 (1985; Zbl 0643.53071)].