Fredholm conditions for operators invariant with respect to compact Lie group actions (Q2240585)

The article under review is concerned with \(G\)-invariant, classical pseudodifferential operators acting between sections of \(G\)-equivariant vector bundles over a compact manifold \(M\). Here \(G\) is a compact Lie group. Specifically, if \(P\) is an operator as such and \(\alpha\) an irreducible representation of \(G\), the authors examine the Fredholmness of the operator \(\pi_{\alpha}(P)\) between the \(\alpha\)-isotypical components of the spaces of Sobolev sections. The authors show that transversal \(\alpha\)-ellipticity is a necessary and sufficient condition for Fredholmness. Earlier work by the authors gave this result in the case of finite groups. As for the notion of transversal \(\alpha\)-ellipticity, it generalizes a transversality condition appearing in the context of (singular) foliations.