On a spectral flow formula for the homological index

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2015.10.030zbMATH Open1332.19006OpenAlexW1605404371MaRDI QIDQ904040FDOQ904040

Authors Jens Kaad, A. L. Carey, H. Grosse

Publication date 15 January 2016

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.05453

zbMATH Keywords

perturbationsindex theoryspectral flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbation theory of linear operators (47A55) Noncommutative geometry (à la Connes) (58B34) Index theory (19K56)

Abstract: Consider a selfadjoint unbounded operator D on a Hilbert space H and a one parameter norm continuous family of selfadjoint bounded operators {A(t)} parametrized by the real line. Then under certain conditions cite{RS95} that include the assumption that the operators {D(t)= D+A(t)} all have discrete spectrum then the spectral flow along the path { D(t)} can be shown to be equal to the index of d/dt+D(t) when the latter is an unbounded Fredholm operator on L^2(R, H). In cite{GLMST11} an investigation of the index=spectral flow question when the operators in the path may have some essential spectrum was started but under restrictive assumptions that rule out differential operators in general. In cite{CGPST14a} the question of what happens when the Fredholm condition is dropped altogether was investigated. In these circumstances the Fredholm index is replaced by the Witten index. In this paper we take the investigation begun in cite{CGPST14a} much further. We show how to generalise a formula known from the setting of the L^2 index theorem to the non-Fredholm setting. Our main theorem gives a trace formula relating the homological index of cite{CaKa:TIH} to an integral formula that is known, for a path of selfadjoint Fredholms with compact resolvent and with unitarily equivalent endpoints, to compute spectral flow. Our formula however, applies to paths of selfadjoint non-Fredholm operators. We interpret this as indicating there is a generalisation of spectral flow to the non-Fredholm setting.

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