Self-adjoint local boundary problems on compact surfaces. II: Family index (Q2697944)

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Self-adjoint local boundary problems on compact surfaces. II: Family index
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    Self-adjoint local boundary problems on compact surfaces. II: Family index (English)
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    14 April 2023
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    Summary: The paper presents a first step towards a family index theorem for classical self-adjoint boundary value problems. We address here the simplest non-trivial case of manifolds with boundary, namely the case of two-dimensional manifolds. The first result of the paper is an index theorem for families of first order self-adjoint elliptic differential operators with local boundary conditions, parametrized by points of a compact topological space \(X\). We compute the \(K^1 (X)\)-valued index in terms of the topological data over the boundary. The second result is the universality of the index: we show that the index is a universal additive homotopy invariant for such families if the vanishing on families of invertible operators is assumed.
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    index theory
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    family index
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    first order elliptic operators
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    local boundary conditions
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