Eta cocycles

arXiv0907.0173MaRDI QIDQ6214554FDOQ6214554

Authors: Hitoshi Moriyoshi, Paolo Piazza 

Publication date: 1 July 2009

Abstract: We announce a Godbillon-Vey index formula for longitudinal Dirac operators on a foliated bundle $(X,F)$ with boundary; in particular, we define a Godbillon-Vey eta invariant on the boundary foliation, that is, a secondary invariant for longitudinal Dirac operators on type III foliations. Our theorem generalizes the classic Atiyah-Patodi-Singer index formula for $(X,F)$. Moreover, employing the Godbillon-Vey index as a pivotal example, we explain a new approach to higher index theory on geometric structures with boundary. This is heavily based on the interplay between the absolute and relative pairing of $K$-theory and cyclic cohomology for an exact sequence of Banach algebras, which in the present context takes the form $0oJoAoBo0$ with J dense and holomorphically closed in the C^*-algebra of the foliation and B depending only on boundary data.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28) Index theory (19K56) Noncommutative global analysis, noncommutative residues (58J42)

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