The Witten index and the spectral shift function

DOI10.1142/S0129055X22500118MaRDI QIDQ5089714zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Galina Levitina, Denis Potapov, A. L. Carey, Fedor Sukochev

Publication date 15 July 2022

Published in Reviews in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.06812

zbMATH Keywords

trace formulasspectral shift functionWitten index

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(Semi-) Fredholm operators; index theories (47A53) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Quantum scattering theory (81U99) Index theory (19K56)

Abstract: In cite{APSIII} Atiyah, Patodi and Singer introduced spectral flow for elliptic operators on odd dimensional compact manifolds. They argued that it could be computed from the Fredholm index of an elliptic operator on a manifold of one higher dimension. A general proof of this fact was produced by Robbin-Salamon cite{RS95}. In cite{GLMST}, a start was made on extending these ideas to operators with some essential spectrum as occurs on non-compact manifolds. The new ingredient introduced there was to exploit scattering theory following the fundamental paper cite{Pu08}. These results do not apply to differential operators directly, only to pseudo-differential operators on manifolds, due to the restrictive assumption that spectral flow is considered between an operator and {its perturbation by a relatively trace-class operator}. In this paper we extend the main results of these earlier papers to spectral flow between an operator and a perturbation satisfying a higher $p^{th}$ Schatten class condition for $0leqp<infty$, thus allowing differential operators on manifolds of any dimension $d<p+1$. In fact our main result does not assume any ellipticity or Fredholm properties at all and proves an operator theoretic trace formula motivated by cite{BCPRSW, CGK16}. We illustrate our results using Dirac type operators on $$ for arbitrary $$. In this setting our main result substantially extends cite[Theorem 3.5]{CGGLPSZ16}, where the case $d=1$ was treated.

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