A topological approach to indices of geometric operators on manifolds with fibered boundaries (Q2186070)

This work investigates topological aspects of Dirac-type operators on compact manifolds with fibered boundary. The principal result is the formulation of the index pairing in this case, the receptacle of which is \(K^1\) of the \(C^*\)-algebra associated to the compact manifold with fibered boundary. Using the deformation groupoids of the \(\Phi\) pseudodifferential caluclus as well as the edge calculus, explicit formulas for this index are given in both calculi. In fact, it is also shown that in this particular setting, the two indices coincide; this is also done using an appropriate groupoid which deforms the \(\Phi\) calculs to the \(e\) calculus. As an application, it is shown that the \(\Phi\) (and \(e\)) indices obtained in this way can be used to localize the singature for singular fiber bundles as such.