On the topological contents of -invariants

DOI10.2140/GT.2017.21.1285MaRDI QIDQ2356947zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ulrich Bunke

Publication date 7 June 2017

Published in Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.4217

zbMATH Keywords

\(\eta\)-invariant, \(K\)-theorybordism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: We discuss an universal bordism invariant obtained from the Atiyah-Patodi-Singer eta-invariant from the analytic and homotopy theoretic point of view. Classical invariants like the Adams e-invariant, $ho$-invariants and $String$-bordism invariants are derived as special cases. The main results are a secondary index theorem about the coincidence of the analytic and topological constructions and intrinsic expressions for the bordism invariants.

Review text

The purpose of this interesting paper is to understand which topological information is encoded in the eta-invariant, a spectral-geometric invariant introduced by Atiyah, Patodi and Singer in the context of index theory for boundary value problems for Dirac operators. The author discusses a universal bordism invariant obtained from the Atiyah-Patodi-Singer eta-invariant from the analytic and homotopy-theoretic point of view. The main results are a secondary index theorem about the coincidence of the analytic and topological constructions and intrinsic expressions for the bordism invariants.

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