The two definitions of the index difference

DOI10.1090/TRAN/7133zbMATH Open1373.19005arXiv1308.4998OpenAlexW2964179867MaRDI QIDQ5348744FDOQ5348744

Authors: Johannes Ebert 

Publication date: 21 August 2017

Published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Given two metrics of positive scalar curvature metrics on a closed spin manifold, there is a secondary index invariant in real $K$-theory. There exist two definitions of this invariant, one of homotopical flavour, the other one defined by a index problem of Atiyah-Patodi-Singer type. We give a complete and detailed proof of the folklore result that both constructions yield the same answer. Moreover, we generalize this to the case of two families of positive scalar curvature metrics, parametrized by a compact space. In essence, we prove a generalization of the classical "spectral-flow-index theorem" to the case of families of real operators.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.4998

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zbMATH Keywords

Bott periodicityDirac operatorpositive scalar curvaturespectral flowFredholm model for \(K\)-theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Index theory (19K56) Pseudodifferential and Fourier integral operators on manifolds (58J40) Topological (K)-theory (55N15) Spectral flows (58J30)

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