Anomaly inflow for local boundary conditions

DOI10.1007/JHEP09(2022)250arXiv2208.00476MaRDI QIDQ6406583FDOQ6406583

Authors: A. V. Ivanov, D. V. Vassilevich 

Publication date: 31 July 2022

Abstract: We study the $eta$-invariant of a Dirac operator on a manifold with boundary subject to local boundary conditions with the help of heat kernel methods. In even dimensions, we relate this invariant to $eta$-invariants of a boundary Dirac operator, while in odd dimension, it is expressed through the index of boundary operators. We stress the necessity of the strong ellipticity condition for the applicability of our methods. We show that the Witten--Yonekura boundary conditions are not strongly elliptic, though they are very close to strongly elliptic ones.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Index theory and related fixed-point theorems on manifolds (58J20) Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28) Heat and other parabolic equation methods for PDEs on manifolds (58J35) Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50)

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