On the noncommutative residue for projective pseudodifferential operators

DOI10.4310/JDG/1370979336MaRDI QIDQ355072zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Alexander Strohmaier, Jörg Seiler

Publication date 24 July 2013

Published in Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.3953, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jdg/1370979336

zbMATH Keywords

Dirac operatorsprojective pseudodifferential operatorsWodzicki residue

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Pseudodifferential operators as generalizations of partial differential operators (35S05) Pseudodifferential and Fourier integral operators on manifolds (58J40)

Abstract: A well known result on pseudodifferential operators states that the noncommutative residue (Wodzicki residue) of a pseudodifferential projection vanishes. This statement is non-local and implies the regularity of the eta invariant at zero of Dirac type operators. We prove that in a filtered algebra the value of a projection under any residual trace depends only on the principal part of the projection. This general, purely algebraic statement applied to the algebra of projective pseudodifferential operators implies that the noncommutative residue factors to a map from the twisted K-theory of the co-sphere bundle. We use arguments from twisted K-theory to show that this map vanishes, thus showing that the noncommutative residue of a projective pseudodifferential projection vanishes. This also gives a very short proof in the classical setting.

Review text

The authors define the Wodzicki residue for projective pseudodifferential operators and prove that it vanishes on zero-order projections in the case the dimension of the manifold is odd. Basic reference for the authors is the work of \textit{V. Mathai} et al. [J. Differ. Geom. 74, No. 2, 265--292 (2006; Zbl 1115.58021)]. With respect to that paper, here the definition of projective pseudodifferential operator is reconsidered in terms of convolution bundles. This allows an equivalent definition of Wodzicki residue.NEWLINENEWLINE In such a setting, the computation of the residue can be reduced to a model, namely to positive projections of generalized Dirac operators, for which it is known that the residue density vanishes, cf. \textit{T. P. Branson} and \textit{P. B. Gilkey} [J. Funct. Anal. 108, No. 1, 47--87 (1992; Zbl 0756.58048)].

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