The index of generalised Dirac-Schrödinger operators

DOI10.4171/JST/283MaRDI QIDQ2301867zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Koen van den Dungen

Publication date 25 February 2020

Published in Journal of Spectral Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.09206

zbMATH Keywords

Dirac-Schrödinger operatorsindex theoryspectral flowunbounded \(KK\)-theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kasparov theory ((KK)-theory) (19K35) Index theory (19K56) Noncommutative topology (46L85) Applications of operator theory in the physical sciences (47N50) Index theory and related fixed-point theorems on manifolds (58J20) Spectral flows (58J30)

Abstract: We study the relation between spectral flow and index theory within the framework of (unbounded) KK-theory. In particular, we consider a generalised notion of 'Dirac-Schr"odinger operators', consisting of a self-adjoint elliptic first-order differential operator D with a skew-adjoint 'potential' given by a (suitable) family of unbounded operators on an auxiliary Hilbert module. We show that such Dirac-Schr"odinger operators are Fredholm, and we prove a relative index theorem for these operators (which allows cutting and pasting of the underlying manifolds). Furthermore, we show that the index of a Dirac-Schr"odinger operator represents the pairing (Kasparov product) of the K-theory class of the potential with the K-homology class of D. We prove this result without assuming that the potential is differentiable; instead, we assume that the 'variation' of the potential is sufficiently small near infinity. In the special case of the real line, we recover the well-known equality of the index with the spectral flow of the potential.

Review text

The Dirac-Schrödinger operator \(\mathscr{D}-iV\) consists of the Dirac operator \(\mathscr{D}\) and a self-adjoint endomorphism \(V\) of a vector bundle of finite rank. The \(\mathscr{D}-iV\) is known to be a Fredholm operator, i.e. a subject to the Index Theory. The author of the paper under review generalizes the Dirac-Schrödinger operators to the infinite rank vector bundles consisting of a family of unbounded operators. He shows, that such operators are Fredholm, and develops the KK-theory for them.

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