Index pairings in presence of symmetries with applications to topological insulators

DOI10.1007/S00220-015-2530-6zbMATH Open1348.82083arXiv1503.04834OpenAlexW3104602445MaRDI QIDQ282579FDOQ282579

Authors: Julian Großmann, Hermann Schulz-Baldes 

Publication date: 12 May 2016

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

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).

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

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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)

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