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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Fractional analytic index |
Author: | Varghese, M. Melrose, R. Singer, I. |
Citation: | Journal of Differential Geometry, 2006; 74(2):265-292 |
Publisher: | Lehigh Univ |
Issue Date: | 2006 |
ISSN: | 0022-040X 1945-743X |
Statement of Responsibility: | V. Mathai, R.B. Melrose & I.M. Singer |
Abstract: | For a finite rank projective bundle over a compact manifold, so associated to a torsion, Dixmier-Douady, 3-class, w, on the mani- fold, we define the ring of differential operators ‘acting on sections of the projective bundle’ in a formal sense. In particular, any ori- ented even-dimensional manifold carries a projective spin Dirac operator in this sense. More generally the corresponding space of pseudodifferential operators is defined, with supports sufficiently close to the diagonal, i.e., the identity relation. For such elliptic operators we define the numerical index in an essentially analytic way, as the trace of the commutator of the operator and a para- metrix and show that this is homotopy invariant. Using the heat kernel method for the twisted, projective spin Dirac operator, we show that this index is given by the usual formula, now in terms of the twisted Chern character of the symbol, which in this case defines an element of K-theory twisted by w; hence the index is a rational number but in general it is not an integer. |
Description: | First published in Journal of Differential Geometry in Volume 74, 2, 2006 published by International Press. |
DOI: | 10.4310/jdg/1175266205 |
Published version: | http://www.intlpress.com/JDG/p/2006/74_2/JDG-74-2-265-292.pdf |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 2 Mathematical Sciences publications |
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