Transversal Dirac operators on distributions, foliations, and G-manifolds: Lecture notes
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Authors: Ken Richardson 
Publication date: 1 June 2010
Abstract: In these survey lectures, we investigate the geometric and analytic properties of transverse Dirac operators. In particular, we define a transverse Dirac operator associated to a distribution that is essentially self-adjoint (Prokhorenkov-R result). We describe the Habib-R Theorem showing that the invariance of the spectrum of a basic Dirac operator on a Riemannian foliation. The Bruening-Kamber-R theorems give Atiyah-Singer type formulas for the equivariant index of transversally elliptic operators on G-manifolds and the index of basic Dirac operators on Riemannian foliations. These notes contain exercises at the end of each subsection and are meant to be accessible to graduate students.
Foliations (differential geometric aspects) (53C12) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50) Relations of PDEs with special manifold structures (Riemannian, Finsler, etc.) (58J60)
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