A Riemann Roch theorem for infinite genus Riemann surfaces (Q1976873)

The author obtains a Riemann-Roch formula for Riemann surfaces of infinite genus as arise naturally as spectral varieties for differential equations of mathematical physics. The main result result applies to the class of holomorphic line bundles on the surface, which are associated to divisors of infinite degree that assign a single point to every handle of the surface, whose sections satisfy a pointwise asymptotic growth condition and whose gluing functions for both the surface and the transition functions defining the line bundle also satisfy some asymptotic bounds. The space of sections of this type is finite-dimensional and the Riemann-Roch formula gives a formula for this dimension. The main step in the proof of the theorem is showing that the Cauchy-Riemann operator \(\overline{\partial}\) is a Fredholm operator between Hilbert spaces defined by weighted \(L^2\) and Sobolev norms. To show that it is a Fredholm operator a quasi-inverse is constructed as an integral operator with kernel that approximates the Cauchy kernel. This uses the non-triviality of the transition functions of the line bundle. The final step involves the relationship between \(L^2\) bounds and pointwise bounds at infinity for holomorphic sections. Thus, the paper is highly analytic in nature. Does any of this follow more easily from Aronszajn's work on interpolation?