Projective families of Dirac operators on a Banach Lie groupoid (Q283228)

Summary: We introduce a Banach Lie group \(G\) of unitary operators subject to a natural trace condition. We compute the homotopy groups of \(G\), describe its cohomology and construct an \(S^1\)-central extension. We show that the central extension determines a non-trivial gerbe on the action Lie groupoid \(G \ltimes \mathfrak k\), where \(\mathfrak k\) denotes the Hilbert space of self-adjoint Hilbert-Schmidt operators. With an eye towards constructing elements in twisted K-theory, we prove the existence of a cubic Dirac operator \(\mathbb D\) in a suitable completion of the quantum Weil algebra \(\mathcal{U}(\mathfrak{g}) \otimes Cl(\mathfrak{k})\), which is subsequently extended to a projective family of self-adjoint operators \(\mathbb D_A\) on \(G \ltimes \mathfrak k\). While the kernel of \(\mathbb D_A\) is infinite-dimensional, we show that there is still a notion of finite reducibility at every point, which suggests a generalized definition of twisted \(K\)-theory for action Lie groupoids.