Index theory, bordism, and 𝐾-homology

DOI10.1090/conm/010/658506zbMath0507.55004MaRDI QIDQ4744976

Paul F. Baum, Ronald G. Douglas

Publication date: 1982

Published in: Operator Algebras and 𝐾-Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1090/conm/010/658506

zbMATH Keywords

elliptic boundary value problems; index theory; spinor bundle; total Dirac operator; analytical realization; relative K-homology; Riemann-Roch problem for singular varieties; topological realizations of K-homology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

46M20: Methods of algebraic topology in functional analysis (cohomology, sheaf and bundle theory, etc.)

46L05: General theory of (C^*)-algebras

58J20: Index theory and related fixed-point theorems on manifolds

58J10: Differential complexes

55N15: Topological (K)-theory

35J35: Variational methods for higher-order elliptic equations

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