Eta invariant and holonomy: the even dimensional case

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2015.04.002zbMATH Open1317.58025arXiv1205.0562OpenAlexW2963960275WikidataQ125912777 ScholiaQ125912777MaRDI QIDQ2344271FDOQ2344271

Authors: Xianzhe Dai, Weiping Zhang 

Publication date: 13 May 2015

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

Abstract: In previous work, we introduced eta invariants for even dimensional manifolds. It plays the same role as the eta invariant of Atiyah-Patodi-Singer, which is for odd dimensional manifolds. It is associated to $K^1$ representatives on even dimensional manifolds and is closely related to the so called WZW theory in physics. In fact, it is an intrinsic interpretation of the Wess-Zumino term without passing to the bounding 3-manifold. Spectrally the eta invariant is defined on a finite cylinder, rather than on the manifold itself. Thus it is an interesting question to find an intrinsic spectral interpretation of this new invariant. We address this issue here using adiabatic limit technique. The general formulation relates the (mod $mathbbZ$ reduction of) eta invariant for even dimensional manifolds with the holonomy of the determinant line bundle of a natural family of Dirac type operators. In this sense our result might be thought of as an even dimensional analogue of Witten's holonomy theorem proved by Bismut-Freed and Cheeger independently.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.0562

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zbMATH Keywords

holonomyeta invariantadiabatic limit

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28)

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