Eta invariant and conformal cobordism

DOI10.1007/S10455-005-6494-1zbMATH Open1083.58023arXivmath/0106172OpenAlexW1989178217MaRDI QIDQ2486683FDOQ2486683

Authors: Xianzhe Dai 

Publication date: 5 August 2005

Published in: Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this note we study the problem of conformally flat structures bounding conformally flat structures and show that the eta invariants give obstructions. These lead us to the definition of an abelian group, the conformal cobordism group, which classifies the conformally flat structures according to whether they bound (higher dimensional) conformally flat structures in a conformally invariant way. The eta invariant gives rise to a homomorphism from this group to the circle group, which can be highly nontrivial. It remains an interesting question of how to compute this group.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0106172

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zbMATH Keywords

eta invariantconformally flat manifoldconformal cobordism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28) Bordism and cobordism theories and formal group laws in algebraic topology (55N22)

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