On the homotopy invariance of higher signatures for manifolds with boundary

DOI10.4310/JDG/1214339793zbMATH Open1032.58012arXivmath/9907101OpenAlexW2106827541WikidataQ115194520 ScholiaQ115194520MaRDI QIDQ1609778FDOQ1609778

Authors: Eric Leichtnam, John Lott, Paolo Piazza 

Publication date: 15 August 2002

Published in: Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: If M is a compact oriented manifold-with-boundary whose fundamental group is virtually nilpotent or Gromov-hyperbolic, we show that the higher signatures of M are oriented-homotopy invariants.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9907101

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zbMATH Keywords

cyclic cohomologyhigher index theoryNovikov conjecture on manifolds with boundary

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28) Boundary value problems on manifolds (58J32) Index theory (19K56) Exotic index theories on manifolds (58J22)

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