Spectral sections, twisted rho invariants and positive scalar curvature

DOI10.4171/JNCG/209zbMath1342.58014arXiv1309.5746MaRDI QIDQ893797

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

\(K\)-theory; spectral flow; positive scalar curvature; conformal invariants; manifolds with boundary; vanishing theorems; twisted Dirac eta invariant; twisted Dirac operator; twisted Dirac rho invariant; maximal Baum-Connes conjecture; structure groups; spectral sections

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

81T30: String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory

58J40: Pseudodifferential and Fourier integral operators on manifolds

58J52: Determinants and determinant bundles, analytic torsion

57Q10: Simple homotopy type, Whitehead torsion, Reidemeister-Franz torsion, etc.

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