The Atiyah-Singer index formula for subelliptic operators on contact manifolds. II.

DOI10.4007/ANNALS.2010.171.1683zbMATH Open1206.19005arXiv0804.2492OpenAlexW2949790976MaRDI QIDQ974075FDOQ974075

Erik van Erp

Publication date: 27 May 2010

Published in: Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a new solution to the index problem for hypoelliptic operators in the Heisenberg calculus on contact manifolds, by constructing the appropriate topological K-theory cocycle for such operators. Its Chern character gives a cohomology class to which the Atiyah-Singer index formula can be applied. Such a K-cocycle has already been constructed by Boutet de Monvel for Toeplitz operators, and, more recently, by Melrose and Epstein for the class of Hermite operators. Our construction applies to general hypoelliptic pseudodifferential operators in the Heisenberg calculus. As in the Hermite Index Formula of Melrose and Epstein, our construction gives a vector bundle automorphism of the symmetric tensors of the contact hyperplane bundle. This automorphism is constructed directly from the invertible Heisenberg symbol of the operator, and is easily computed in the case of differential operators.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0804.2492

zbMATH Keywords

contact manifoldsHeisenberg groupsindex theorysubelliptic operatorsHeisenberg calculusHermite operatorstangent groupoid

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Index theory and related fixed-point theorems on manifolds (58J20) Index theory (19K56) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10)

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