The index of the scattering operator on the positive spectral subspace (Q1200466)

The authors construct the scattering operator for a spinor field in a time dependent background by the Dyson expansion. Further they show that the restriction of the scattering operator to the positive spectral subspace is Fredholm. The computation of the index of this restriction is reduced to the index computation for an elliptic pseudo-differential operator of order zero and the index is obtained in terms of a cohomological formula by means of the Atiyah-Singer index theorem.