Eta forms and the odd pseudodifferential families index

zbMATH Open1239.58019arXiv0905.0150MaRDI QIDQ3108745FDOQ3108745

Authors: Richard Melrose, Frédéric Rochon 

Publication date: 5 January 2012

Abstract: Let $A(t)$ be an elliptic, product-type suspended (which is to say parameter-dependant in a symbolic way) family of pseudodifferential operators on the fibres of a fibration $phi$ with base $Y.$ The standard example is $A+it$ where $A$ is a family, in the usual sense, of first order, self-adjoint and elliptic pseudodifferential operators and $$ is the `suspending' parameter. Let $p{i}_{cA}:cA(phi)longrightarrowY$ be the infinite-dimensional bundle with fibre at $yinY$ consisting of the Schwartz-smoothing perturbations, $q,$ making $A_y(t)+q(t)$ invertible for all $$ The total eta form, $et{a}_{cA},$ as described here, is an even form on $cA(phi)$ which has basic differential which is an explicit representative of the odd Chern character of the index of the family: % deta_{cA}=pi_{cA}^*gamma_A, Ch(ind(A))=[gamma_{A}]in H^{odd}(Y). ag{*}label{efatoi.5} % The 1-form part of this identity may be interpreted in terms of the $au$ invariant (exponentiated eta invariant) as the determinant of the family. The 2-form part of the eta form may be interpreted as a B-field on the K-theory gerbe for the family $A$ with eqref{efatoi.5} giving the `curving' as the 3-form part of the Chern character of the index. We also give `universal' versions of these constructions over a classifying space for odd K-theory. For Dirac-type operators, we relate $et{a}_{cA}$ with the Bismut-Cheeger eta form.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0905.0150

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28) Pseudodifferential and Fourier integral operators on manifolds (58J40)

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