An index for confined monopoles (Q2447589)

The author computes the index and the associated spectral density, which plays a central role in quantum computations for fluctuation operators which are defined via the Lagrangian in a confined multimonopole background. To do this the generalization of the standard index calculations is made. The general strategy for such computations is as follows: (1) the reformulation of the index; (2) the computation of the anomaly and the surface term on the boundary; (3) rewriting the nontrivial surface term on the boundary as a generalized index; (4) Fourier transform the derivative operators which transverse to the boundary; (5) find a proper factorization of the auxiliary Hamiltonian for the index on the boundary and reformulate this index as the sum of an anomaly and a surface term.