Spectral flow in Fredholm modules, eta invariants and the JLO cocycle

DOI10.1023/B:KTHE.0000022922.68170.61MaRDI QIDQ1826487zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors John Phillips, A. L. Carey

Publication date 6 August 2004

Published in \(K\)-Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0308161

zbMATH Keywords

\(\theta\)-summable Breuer-Fredholm moduleeta invariantindex theoryspectral flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Index theory (19K56) (K)-theory and operator algebras (including cyclic theory) (46L80) Noncommutative differential geometry (46L87) Noncommutative geometry (à la Connes) (58B34) Exotic index theories on manifolds (58J22)

Abstract: We give a comprehensive account of an analytic approach to spectral flow along paths of self-adjoint Breuer-Fredholm operators in a type $I_{infty}$ or $I{I}_{i}nfty$ von Neumann algebra $mathcalN$. The framework is that of {it odd unbounded} $heta$-{it summable} {it Breuer-Fredholm modules} for a unital Banach *-algebra, $mathcalA$. In the type $I{I}_{infty}$ case spectral flow is real-valued, has no topological definition as an intersection number and our formulae encompass all that is known. We borrow Ezra Getzler's idea (suggested by I. M. Singer) of considering spectral flow (and eta invariants) as the integral of a closed one-form on an affine space. Applications in both the type I and type II cases include a general formula for the relative index of two projections, representing truncated eta functions as integrals of one forms and expressing spectral flow in terms of the JLO cocycle to give the pairing of the $K$-homology and $K$-theory of $mathcalA$.

Review text

The authors provide formulas for the spectral flow along paths of self-adjoint Breuer-Fredholm operators. The approach is general enough to apply to unbounded \(\theta\)-summable Breuer-Fredholm modules in both the I\(_{\infty}\) and II\(_{\infty}\) settings. The results in this paper extend many previous results, including particularly those of the authors [\textit{A. Carey} and \textit{J. Phillips}, Can. J. Math. 50, 673--718 (1998; Zbl 0915.46063)] and of \textit{E. Getzler} [Topology 32, 489--507 (1993; Zbl 0801.46088)]. The paper's spectral flow formulas, including terms that generalize truncated eta invariants, can be interpreted as path integrals of differential one-forms defined on affine spaces of operators. When the spectral flow is between an operator and its conjugation by a unitary operator, the formula can be interpreted as the result of a Chern character pairing between the \(K\)-theory class of the unitary and an entire cyclic cocycle (JLO cocycle) defined by the operator. Under this interpretation this paper may be viewed as a fundamental contribution to type II index theory in noncommutative geometry. Further work in that direction appears in \textit{A. L. Carey}, \textit{J. Phillips}, and \textit{F. A. Sukochev} [Adv. Math. 173, 68--113 (2003; Zbl 1015.19003)].

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