The -invariant and Pontryagin duality in K-theory

DOI10.1023/A:1013967416534zbMATH Open1030.58017arXivmath/0006046OpenAlexW3009599359MaRDI QIDQ1810068FDOQ1810068

Boris Sternin, Anton Savin

Publication date: 15 June 2003

Published in: Mathematical Notes (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The topological significance of the spectral Atiyah-Patodi-Singer eta-invariant is investigated under the parity conditions of P. Gilkey. We show that twice the fractional part of the invariant is computed by the linking pairing in K-theory with the orientation bundle of the manifold. The Pontrjagin duality implies the nondegeneracy of the linking form. An example of a nontrivial fractional part for an even-order operator is presented. This result answers the question of P. Gilkey (1989) concerning the existence of even-order operators on odd-dimensional manifolds with nontrivial fractional part of eta-invariant.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0006046

zbMATH Keywords

index theoremK-theorytopological invariantsspectral invariantslinking numbereta-invariantPontryagin duality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Index theory and related fixed-point theorems on manifolds (58J20) Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28) Exotic index theories on manifolds (58J22) Topological (K)-theory (55N15)

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