The Novikov conjecture on Cheeger spaces

DOI10.4171/JNCG/11-2-2MaRDI QIDQ2013491zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Pierre Albin, Eric Leichtnam, Paolo Piazza, Rafe Mazzeo

Publication date 8 August 2017

Published in Journal of Noncommutative Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.2844

zbMATH Keywords

\(K\)-theory\(L^2\)-cohomologyCheeger spacehigher index theoryhigher signatureideal boundary conditionstratified space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Index theory (19K56) Stratifications; constructible sheaves; intersection cohomology (complex-analytic aspects) (32S60) Noncommutative topology (46L85) Methods of algebraic topology in functional analysis (cohomology, sheaf and bundle theory, etc.) (46M20) Generalized manifolds (57P99) Algebraic topology on manifolds and differential topology (57R19) Stratified sets (58A35) Noncommutative geometry (à la Connes) (58B34) Index theory and related fixed-point theorems on manifolds (58J20) Pseudodifferential and Fourier integral operators on manifolds (58J40)

Abstract: We prove the Novikov conjecture on oriented Cheeger spaces whose fundamental group satisfies the strong Novikov conjecture. A Cheeger space is a stratified pseudomanifold admitting, through a choice of ideal boundary conditions, an L2-de Rham cohomology theory satisfying Poincare duality. We prove that this cohomology theory is invariant under stratified homotopy equivalences and that its signature is invariant under Cheeger space cobordism. Analogous results, after coupling with a Mishchenko bundle associated to any Galois covering, allow us to carry out the analytic approach to the Novikov conjecture: we define higher analytic signatures of a Cheeger space and prove that they are stratified homotopy invariants whenever the assembly map is rationally injective. Finally we show that the analytic signature of a Cheeger space coincides with its topological signature as defined by Banagl.

Review text

A Cheeger space is a stratified pseudomanifold admitting, through a choice of ideal boundary conditions, an \(L^2\)-de Rham cohomology theory satisfying Poincaré duality. It is shown that this cohomology theory is invariant under stratified homotopy equivalence and that its signature is invariant under Cheeger space cobordism. Using coupling with Mishchenko bundles, the authors define higher analytic signatures for a Cheeger space and prove their stratified homotopy invariance under the additional assumption that the assembly map is rationally injective. Then they show that the analytic signature of a Cheeger space coincides with its topological signature as defined by Banagl. Thus, the Novikov conjecture is proved for oriented Cheeger spaces whose fundamental group satisfies the strong Novikov conjecture.

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