The Novikov conjecture on Cheeger spaces

DOI10.4171/JNCG/11-2-2zbMATH Open1375.57034arXiv1308.2844WikidataQ122976854 ScholiaQ122976854MaRDI QIDQ2013491FDOQ2013491

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)

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.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

\(K\)-theorystratified spacehigher index theoryideal boundary condition\(L^2\)-cohomologyhigher signatureCheeger space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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