Equivariant eta forms and equivariant differential K-theory

DOI10.1007/S11425-020-1852-5MaRDI QIDQ2239328zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Bo Liu

Publication date 3 November 2021

Published in Science China. Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.02311

zbMATH Keywords

equivariant differential \(K\)-theoryequivariant eta formequivariant higher spectral flowequivariant spectral sectionorbifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Index theory (19K56) Equivariant (K)-theory (19L47) Twisted (K)-theory; differential (K)-theory (19L50) Index theory and related fixed-point theorems on manifolds (58J20) Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28) Spectral flows (58J30) Heat and other parabolic equation methods for PDEs on manifolds (58J35)

Abstract: In this paper, for a compact Lie group action,we prove the anomaly formula and the functoriality of the equivariant Bismut-Cheeger eta forms with perturbation operators when the equivariant family index vanishes. In order to prove them, we extend the Melrose-Piazza spectral section and its main properties to the equivariant case and introduce the equivariant version of the Dai-Zhang higher spectral flow for arbitrary dimensional fibers.Using these results, we construct a new analytic model of the equivariant differential K-theory for compact manifolds when the group action has finite stabilizers only,which modifies the Bunck-Schick model of the differential K-theory. This model could also be regarded as an analytic model of the differential K-theory for compact orbifolds. Especially, we answer a question proposed by Bunke and Schick about the well-definedness of the push-forward map.

Review text

This paper is well written, well organized and well illustrated. It makes a valuable contribution in the study of equivariant differential \(K\)-theory. For a smooth manifold \(X\) and compact Lie group \(G\), the author provides a geometric model for equivariant differential \(K\)-theory \(\hat{K}_G(X)\) (see Definition 4.3), and shows that \(X\mapsto\hat{K}_G(X)\) is a multiplicative extension of the equivariant \(K\)-theory \(K_G\) (see Proposition 4.11, Theorem 4.12) and explicit an analytic pushforward map on \(\hat{K}_G\); this is done using ideas from the (ordinary) smooth \(K\)-theory of Bunke-Schick, and the functorial property of the equivariant eta form (see Lemma 3.16, Theorem 3.18), based on the analytical techniques of Bismut-Lebeau related to the well-known embedding formula for Atiyah-Patodi-Singer eta invariants.

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