Conformal invariants of twisted Dirac operators and positive scalar curvature

Abstract: For a closed, spin, odd dimensional Riemannian manifold

(Y, g)

, we define the rho invariant

h o_{s p i n} (Y, E, H, g)

for the twisted Dirac operator

D_{H}^{E}

on

Y

, acting on sections of a flat hermitian vector bundle

E

over

Y

, where

H = s u m i^{j + 1} H_{2 j + 1}

is an odd-degree closed differential form on

Y

and

H_{2 j + 1}

is a real-valued differential form of degree

2 j + 1

. We prove that it only depends on the conformal class of the pair

[H, g]

. In the special case when

H

is a closed 3-form, we use a Lichnerowicz-Weitzenbock formula for the square of the twisted Dirac operator, to show that whenever

Y

is a closed spin manifold, then

h o_{s p i n} (Y, E, H, g) = h o_{s p i n} (Y, E, g)

for all

| H |

small enough, whenever g is a Riemannian metric of positive scalar curvature. When

H

is a top-degree form on an oriented three dimensional manifold, we also compute

h o_{s p i n} (Y, E, H, g)

.

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