A Local Index Theorem of Transversal Type on Manifolds with Locally Free \mathbb{S}^1-action

arXiv2007.00944MaRDI QIDQ6344259FDOQ6344259

Authors: Dung-Cheng Lin, I-Hsun Tsai 

Publication date: 2 July 2020

Abstract: We study an index of a transversal Dirac operator on an odd-dimensional manifold $X$ with locally free $mathbb{S}^1$-action. One difficulty of using heat kernel method lies in the understanding of the asymptotic expansion as $to{0}^{+}$. By a probabilistic approach via the Feynman-Kac formula, the transversal heat kernel on $X$ can be linked to the ordinary heat kernel for functions on the orbifold $M=X/mathbb{S}^1$ which is more tractable. After some technical results for a uniform bound estimate as $to{0}^{+}$, we are reduced from the transversal, orbifold situation to the classical situation particularly at points of the principal stratum. One application asserts that for a certain class of spin orbifolds $M$, to the classical index problem of Kawasaki in the Riemannian setting the net contributions arising from the lower-dimensional strata beyond the principal one vanish identically.

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