Hodge and signature theorems for a family of manifolds with fibre bundle boundary (Q2464828)

Let \(M\) be a manifold whose boundary is the total space of a fibre bundle \(\phi: \partial M \to B\) with fibre \(F\). The author establishes Hodge and signature theorems for a \(1\)-parameter family of metrics on \(M\) which near the boundary are quasi-isometric to metrics of the form \[ ds^2_c = dr^2 + r^{2c} \widetilde{h} + \phi^* ds^2_B \] where \(\widetilde{h}\) is a \(2\)-form that restricts to a metric on each fibre of the boundary and \(0 \leq c \leq 1\). For \(c=0\) and \(1\) these become an incomplete cylindrical metric and a cone bundle metric, respectively. These theorems interpolate between Hodge and signature theorems for the extreme cases which were previously known [\textit{M. F. Atiyah, V. K. Patodi} and \textit{I. M. Singer}, Math. Proc. Camb. Philos. Soc. 77, 43--69 (1975; Zbl 0297.58008)] and [\textit{J. Cheeger}, On the Hodge theory of Riemannian pseudomanifolds. Geometry of the Laplace operator, Honolulu/Hawaii 1979, Proc. Symp. Pure Math. 36, 91--146 (1980; Zbl 0461.58002)].