Quantising proper actions on \(\text{Spin}^c\)-manifolds (Q1688499)

Recently, the \textit{quantisation commutes with reduction} principle was generalised from the symplectic setting to the \(\text{Spin}^c\)-setting. The present study gives a new extension, namely to non-compact groups and manifolds. Also, if the previous generalisation uses topological methods, the new one is based on an analytical approach to possibly non-cocompact actions on \(\text{Spin}^c\)-manifolds. This approach generalises to \(\text{Spin}^c\)-Dirac operators twisted by vector bundles, and implies an index formula for the Braverman's analytic index of such operators. The main result for untwisted \(\text{Spin}^c\)-Dirac operators for possibly non-cocompact actions, namely Theorem 6.8, is proved in Sections 7 and 8. The index formula for \(\text{Spin}^c\)-Dirac operators twisted by vector bundles is also stated in Section 6, and is proved in Section 9. Finally, Section 10 contains applications of the main results and a way to construct examples where they apply.