The odd Chern character and index localization formulae

DOI10.4310/CAG.2011.V19.N2.A1zbMATH Open1258.19002arXiv0901.2563OpenAlexW2029213166MaRDI QIDQ413397FDOQ413397

Publication date: 7 May 2012

Published in: Communications in Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We describe a class of real Banach manifolds, which classify

K^{- 1}

. These manifolds are Grassmannians of (hermitian) lagrangian subspaces in a complex Hilbert space. Certain finite codimensional real subvarieties described by incidence relations define geometric representatives for the generators of the cohomology rings of these classifying spaces. Any family of self-adjoint, Fredholm operators parametrized by a closed manifold comes with a map to one of these spaces. We use these Schubert varieties to describe the Poincare duals of the pull-backs to the parameter space of the cohomology ring generators. The class corresponding to the first generator is the spectral flow.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0901.2563

zbMATH Keywords

Chern character classifying space Fredholm operators Schubert varieties topological \(K\)-theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Riemann-Roch theorems, Chern characters (19L10) (Semi-) Fredholm operators; index theories (47A53) Homology of classifying spaces and characteristic classes in algebraic topology (55R40)

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