Higher localised A-genera for proper actions and applications

DOI10.1016/J.JFA.2022.109695MaRDI QIDQ2088086zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hao Guo, Varghese Mathai

Publication date 21 October 2022

Published in Journal of Functional Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.01838

zbMATH Keywords

coarse geometryfixed point theoremindextwisted trace

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Index theory (19K56) (K)-theory and operator algebras (including cyclic theory) (46L80) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Noncommutative geometry (à la Connes) (58B34) Index theory and related fixed-point theorems on manifolds (58J20) Exotic index theories on manifolds (58J22)

Abstract: For a finitely generated discrete group $Gamma$ acting properly on a spin manifold $M$, we formulate new topological obstructions to $Gamma$-invariant metrics of positive scalar curvature on $M$ that take into account the cohomology of the classifying space $underlineBGamma$ for proper actions. In the cocompact case, this leads to a natural generalisation of Gromov-Lawson's notion of higher $hatA$-genera to the setting of proper actions by groups with torsion. It is conjectured that these invariants obstruct the existence of $Gamma$-invariant positive scalar curvature on $M$. For classes arising from the subring of $H^{\ast }(underlineBGamma,mathbbR)$ generated by elements of degree at most $2$, we are able to prove this, under suitable assumptions, using index-theoretic methods for projectively invariant Dirac operators and a twisted $L^2$-Lefschetz fixed-point theorem involving a weighted trace on conjugacy classes. The latter generalises a result of Wang-Wang to the projective setting. In the special case of free actions and the trivial conjugacy class, this reduces to a theorem of Mathai, which provided a partial answer to a conjecture of Gromov-Lawson on higher $hatA$-genera. If $M$ is non-cocompact, we obtain obstructions to $M$ being a partitioning hypersurface inside a non-cocompact $Gamma$-manifold with non-negative scalar curvature that is positive in a neighbourhood of the hypersurface. Finally, we define a quantitative version of the twisted higher index and use it to prove a parameterised vanishing theorem in terms of the lower bound of the total curvature term in the square of the twisted Dirac operator.

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