Spectral sections, twisted rho invariants and positive scalar curvature

DOI10.4171/JNCG/209MaRDI QIDQ893797zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Varghese Mathai, Moulay-Tahar Benameur

Publication date 20 November 2015

Published in Journal of Noncommutative Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.5746

zbMATH Keywords

\(K\)-theoryconformal invariantspositive scalar curvaturemanifolds with boundaryvanishing theoremsspectral flowtwisted Dirac eta invarianttwisted Dirac operatortwisted Dirac rho invariantmaximal Baum-Connes conjecturestructure groupsspectral sections

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Determinants and determinant bundles, analytic torsion (58J52) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Pseudodifferential and Fourier integral operators on manifolds (58J40) Simple homotopy type, Whitehead torsion, Reidemeister-Franz torsion, etc. (57Q10)

Abstract: We had previously defined the rho invariant $h{o}_{spin}(Y,E,H,g)$ for the twisted Dirac operator $otpartia{l}_H^E$ on a closed odd dimensional Riemannian spin manifold $(Y,g)$, acting on sections of a flat hermitian vector bundle $E$ over $Y$, where $H=sum{i}^{j+1}{H}_{2j+1}$ is an odd-degree differential form on $Y$ and $H_{2j+1}$ is a real-valued differential form of degree $2j+1$. Here we show that it is a conformal invariant of the pair $(H,g)$. In this paper we express the defect integer $h{o}_{spin}(Y,E,H,g)-h{o}_{spin}(Y,E,g)$ in terms of spectral flows and prove that $h{o}_{spin}(Y,E,H,g)inmathbbQ$, whenever $g$ is a Riemannian metric of positive scalar curvature. In addition, if the maximal Baum-Connes conjecture holds for $p{i}_1(Y)$ (which is assumed to be torsion-free), then we show that $h{o}_{spin}(Y,E,H,rg)=0$ for all $rgg0$, significantly generalizing our earlier results. These results are proved using the Bismut-Weitzenb"ock formula, a scaling trick, the technique of noncommutative spectral sections, and the Higson-Roe approach.

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