Natural equivariant transversally elliptic Dirac operators

DOI10.1007/S10711-010-9542-3MaRDI QIDQ2430740zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Igor Prokhorenkov, Ken Richardson

Publication date 8 April 2011

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0805.3340

zbMATH Keywords

Dirac operatorequivariant indextransversally elliptic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Index theory (19K56) Exotic index theories on manifolds (58J22)

Abstract: We introduce a new class of natural, explicitly defined, transversally elliptic differential operators over manifolds with compact group actions. Under certain assumptions, the symbols of these operators generate all the possible values of the equivariant index. We also show that the components of the representation-valued equivariant index coincide with those of an elliptic operator constructed from the original data.

Review text

This paper establishes conditions under which the representation-valued index theory of transversally elliptic operators reduces to \(O(n)\)-equivariant index theory of elliptic operators. Let \(M\) be a closed Riemannian manifold on which a compact Lie group \(G\) acts isometrically. As described by \textit{M. F. Atiyah} [Elliptic operators and compact groups. Lecture Notes in Mathematics 401. Berlin-Heidelberg-New York: Springer-Verlag (1974; Zbl 0297.58009)], a \(G\)-equivariant transversally elliptic operator on \(M\) has a representation-valued index. The authors observe that \(G\), or a quotient of \(G\), acts freely on \(M\)'s orthonormal frame bundle \(F\). From a \(G\times O(n)\)-equivariant, \(G\)-transverse Dirac operator on the frame bundle, the authors use an \(O(n)\)-representation to construct a \(G\)-equivariant transversally elliptic operator on \(M\) and a \(G\)-representation to construct an \(O(n)\)-equivariant elliptic operator on \(F/G\). They use these ideas to reduce the representation-valued index theory of such transversally elliptic operators on \(M\) to the \(O(n)\)-equivariant index theory of elliptic operators on \(F/G\). For example the \(\rho\)-index of the \(G\)-transversally elliptic operator constructed using the trivial \(O(n)\)-representation is the \(O(n)\)-invariant part of the index of the elliptic operator on \(F/G\) that is constructed using \(\rho\). The authors show that, when \(F\) is \(G\)-transversally spin\(^{c}\) and \(F/G\) is even-dimensional, then every transversally elliptic, \(G\)-equivariant, \(K\)-theoretic symbol class on \(M\) has its \(G\)-index theory represented, as above, by a \(G\)-transverse Dirac operator on the frame bundle.

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