Adiabatic limits of Seifert fibrations, Dedekind sums, and the diffeomorphism type of certain 7-manifolds (Q2256062)

In [Math. Proc. Camb. Philos. Soc. 78, 405--432 (1975; Zbl 0314.58016)] \textit{M. F. Atiyah} et al. proved their famous index theorem for manifolds with boundary, and the eta invariant enters into the index formula. For a fibration of compact manifolds, \textit{J.-M. Bismut} and \textit{J. Cheeger} [J. Am. Math. Soc. 2, No. 1, 33--70 (1989; Zbl 0671.58037)] computed the adiabatic limit of the eta invariant on total manifolds under an additional invertibility hypothesis. \textit{X. Dai} [J. Am. Math. Soc. 4, No. 2, 265--321 (1991; Zbl 0736.58039)] extended the Bismut-Cheeger results to the case that the kernel of family Dirac operators is a vector bundle. In this nice paper, the author extends the results of Bismut-Cheeger [loc. cit.] and Dai [loc. cit.] to Seifert fibrations. Since the base of Seifert fibrations is an orbifold, a new contribution from the singular fibres appears in the adiabatic formula. As an application, the author computes the Eells-Kuiper and \(t\)-invariants of certain cohomogeneity one manifolds.