Skew localizer and Z₂-flows for real index pairings

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2021.108038MaRDI QIDQ2237412zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nora Doll, Hermann Schulz-Baldes

Publication date 27 October 2021

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.09226

zbMATH Keywords

\( \mathbb{Z}_2\)-invariantindex theoryspectral flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Index theory (19K56) (K)-theory and operator algebras (including cyclic theory) (46L80) Spectral flows (58J30)

Abstract: Real index pairings of projections and unitaries on a separable Hilbert space with a real structure are defined when the projections and unitaries fulfill symmetry relations invoking the real structure, namely projections can be real, quaternionic, even or odd Lagrangian and unitaries can be real, quaternionic, symmetric or anti-symmetric. There are $64$ such real index pairings of real $K$-theory with real $K$-homology. For $16$ of them, the Noether index of the pairing vanishes, but there is a secondary $mathbb{Z}_2$-valued invariant. The first set of results provides index formulas expressing each of these $16$ $mathbb{Z}_2$-valued pairings as either an orientation flow or a half-spectral flow. The second and main set of results constructs the skew localizer for a pairing stemming from a Fredholm module and shows that the $mathbb{Z}_2$-invariant can be computed as the sign of its Pfaffian and in $8$ of the cases as the sign of the determinant of its off-diagonal entry. This is of relevance for the numerical computation of invariants of topological insulators.

Review text

Index theorems for \(\mathbb{Z}_{2}\)-invariants have been studied by various researchers. There are 16 types secondary \(\mathbb{Z}_{2}\)-valued index pairings. In this paper under review, the authors study a systematic approach to computing \(\mathbb{Z}_{2}\)-valued index pairings and constructs the so-called skew localizer in the all 16 cases. More precisely, the first result in the paper is the index formulas for \(\mathbb{Z}_{2}\)-valued index pairings by using either an orientation flow or a half-spectral flow. The second result is constructing the skew localizer for a pairing stemming from an unbounded Fredholm module and calculating the \(\mathbb{Z}_{2}\)-valued index by using the sign of the Pfaffian and that of the determinant of the skew localizer. The two main results for one of the 16 cases are provided in Section 1. Section 1 also contains a concrete application to the Kitaev chain, which is an example of a one-dimensional topological insulators.

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