Holomorphic Lefschetz formula for manifolds with boundary (Q1434214)
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Holomorphic Lefschetz formula for manifolds with boundary (English)
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1 July 2004
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Lefschetz has shown how to compute the number \(L(f)\) of fixed points of a continuous map \(f:M\to M\) of a closed manifold \(M\) in terms of the transformations \((Hf)_i\) induced by \(f\) on the cohomology of \(M\): as \(L(f)=\sum_i (-1)^i \text{ tr}(HF)_i\). In their 1967 paper, Atiyah and Bott proved similar formulas for endomorphisms of elliptic complexes over a smooth compact closed manifold -- e.g., for endomorphisms given by pseudodifferential operators. In particular, they presented a Lefschetz formula for holomorphic mappings of compact complex manifolds without boundary. The Atiyah-Bott formulas (and their generalizations) turned out to be extremely useful in quantum field theories, especially in supersymmetric theories. In many practical applications, however, we are interested in dynamical system on manifolds \textit{with} boundary -- and, in particular, in fixed points of the corresponding mappings. There have been several Lefschetz-type formulas for fixed points of manifolds \(M\) with boundary. The authors prove a new holomorphic Lefschetz formula for the case when \(M\) is a strictly convex domain in \(C^n\) -- i.e., for the basic local situation. One of the main difficulties that the authors had to overcome is that Lefschetz formula uses the trace operator \(\text{ tr}\), but for manifolds with boundary, some of the corresponding spaces are infinite-dimensional, and thus, as it is well known, there is no standard way to introduce trace (this is why, e.g., Heinsenberg's relations \(px-xp=\text{const}\) can only be implemented in an infinite-dimensional space). Instead of using a standard trace operator, the authors use integral formulas developed by \textit{N. Tarkhanov} in his 1995 Kluwer book ``Complexes of differential operators'' (1995; Zbl 0852.58076).
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fixed points
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Lefschetz formula
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manifolds with boundary
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