Index pairings in presence of symmetries with applications to topological insulators

DOI10.1007/S00220-015-2530-6zbMATH Open1348.82083OpenAlexW3104602445MaRDI QIDQ282579FDOQ282579

Authors Julian Großmann, Hermann Schulz-Baldes

Publication date 12 May 2016

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.04834

zbMATH Keywords

topological insulatorsFermi projectionindex pairings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of solids (82D20) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30)

Abstract: In a basic framework of a complex Hilbert space equipped with a complex conjugation and an involution, linear operators can be real, quaternionic, symmetric or anti-symmetric, and orthogonal projections can furthermore be symplectic. This paper investigates index pairings of projections and unitaries submitted to such symmetries. Various scenarios emerge: Noether indices can take either arbitrary integer values or only even integer values or they can vanish and then possibly have secondary $mathbb{Z}_2$-invariants. These general results are applied to prove index theorems for the strong invariants of topological insulators. The symmetries come from the Fermi projection ($K$-theoretic part of the pairing) and the Dirac operator ($K$-homological part of the pairing depending on the dimension of physical space).

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