Bismut superconnections and the Chern character for Dirac operators on foliated manifolds

DOI10.1007/BF00998126MaRDI QIDQ1904360zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors James L. Heitsch

Publication date 21 August 1996

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00998126

zbMATH Keywords

foliationgeneralized Dirac operatorssuperconnection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Index theory (19K56) Index theory and related fixed-point theorems on manifolds (58J20)

Review text

Bismut superconnection and a nonnormalized Chern character for generalized Dirac operators acting along the leaves of a compact foliated manifold are defined. The analog of the classical cohomological formula for the index of a family of generalized Dirac operators is obtained.

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