On the relationship of gerbes to the odd families index theorem

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2006.01.009MaRDI QIDQ856755zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Bai-Ling Wang, A. L. Carey

Publication date 7 December 2006

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0407243

zbMATH Keywords

index theoryDirac operators\(k\)-theorybundle gerbe

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Index theory (19K56) Generalizations of fiber spaces and bundles in algebraic topology (55R65) Applications of PDEs on manifolds (58J90) Bifurcation theory for PDEs on manifolds (58J55)

Abstract: The goal of this paper is to apply the universal gerbe of cite{CMi1} and cite{CMi2} to give an alternative, simple and more unified view of the relationship between index theory and gerbes. We discuss determinant bundle gerbes cite{CMMi1} and the index gerbe of cite{L} for the case of families of Dirac operators on odd dimensional closed manifolds. The method also works for a family of Dirac operators on odd dimensional manifolds with boundary, for a pair of Melrose-Piazza's $Cl(1)$-spectral sections for a family of Dirac operators on even dimensional closed manifolds with vanishing index in $K$-theory and, in a simple case, for manifolds with corners. The common feature of these bundle gerbes is that there exists a canonical bundle gerbe connection whose curving is given by the degree 2 part of the even eta-form (up to a locally defined exact form) arising from the local family index theorem.

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