An index formula for the intersection Euler characteristic of an infinite cone (Q5918939)

This article is part of the author's program to extend the Cheeger-Müller theorem to singular spaces with conical singularities. The main idea is to generalize the strategy of \textit{J.-M. Bismut} and \textit{W. Zhang} [An extension of a theorem by Cheeger and Müller. With an appendix by François Laudenbach. Paris: Société Mathématique de France (1992; Zbl 0781.58039)]. This program was concluded in [\textit{U. Ludwig}, Duke Math. J. 169, No. 13, 2501--2570 (2020; Zbl 1458.58016)]. In this article, the author establishes an index formula for the intersection Euler characteristic of a cone. To do that, it is studied the spectral properties of the model Witten Laplacian on the infinite cone. An explicit formula for the zeta function of the model Witten Laplacian is presented (Theorem I). Latter, the author express the absolute and relative intersection Euler characteristic of the cone as a sum of two terms, a local term and the Cheeger invariant (Theorem II). This local term is build over the Chern-Simons class of \((0,\infty)\times L\) with the Levi-Civita connections of the metrics \(dr^2+r^2g\) and \(dr^2+g\), where \(g\) is the metric on \(L\).