Maslov index and Novikov-Wall theorem

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Authors Pierre Py

Publication date 12 June 2006

Published in Boletín de la Sociedad Matemática Mexicana. Third Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

\(4k\) dimensional manifoldfibre bundlesNovikov additivitysignaturesymplectic geometryternary Maslov index

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lagrangian submanifolds; Maslov index (53D12) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20)

Review text

This paper considers a \(4k\) dimensional manifold with boundary \(M\) which is the union of two submanifolds with boundary \(M_{1}\) and \(M_{2}\) joined along a submanifold with boundary \(X_0\) of their boundaries. There is then a formula due to C. T. C. Wall expressing \(\sigma (M)-\sigma (M_{1})-\sigma (M_{2})\) in terms of the Maslov index associated to \( X_{0},X_{1}=\partial M_{1}-X_{0}\), and \(X_{2}=\partial M_{2}-X_{0}.\) It is shown that this permits computation of the signature of a closed manifold using a Morse function.

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