Search results for "Atiyah–Singer index theorem"
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Maslov Anomaly and the Morse Index Theorem
2001
Our starting point is again the phase space integral $$\displaystyle{ \text{e}^{\text{i}\hat{\varGamma }[\tilde{M}]} =\int \mathcal{D}\chi ^{a}\,\text{e}^{\text{i}S_{\text{fl}}[\chi,\tilde{M}]} }$$ (31.1) with periodic boundary conditions χ(0) = χ(T) and $$\displaystyle{ S_{\text{fl}}[\chi,\tilde{M}] = \frac{1} {2}\int _{0}^{T}dt\,\bar{\chi }_{ a}(t)\left [ \frac{\partial } {\partial t} -\tilde{M}(t)\right ]_{\phantom{a}b}^{a}\chi ^{b}(t)\;. }$$ (31.2) Here we have indicated that Sfl and \(\hat{\varGamma }\) depend on ηcl a and A i only through \(\tilde{M}_{\phantom{a}b}^{a}\): $$\displaystyle{ \tilde{M}(t)_{\phantom{a}b}^{a} =\omega ^{ac}\partial _{ c}\partial _{b}\mathcal{H}{\bigl (\eta _…
Morse-Smale index theorems for elliptic boundary deformation problems.
2012
AbstractMorse-type index theorems for self-adjoint elliptic second order boundary value problems arise as the second variation of an energy functional corresponding to some variational problem. The celebrated Morse index theorem establishes a precise relation between the Morse index of a geodesic (as critical point of the geodesic action functional) and the number of conjugate points along the curve. Generalization of this theorem to linear elliptic boundary value problems appeared since seventies. (See, for instance, Smale (1965) [12], Uhlenbeck (1973) [15] and Simons (1968) [11] among others.) The aim of this paper is to prove a Morse–Smale index theorem for a second order self-adjoint el…
Quantum Groups, Star Products and Cyclic Cohomology
1993
After some historical remarks, we start with a rapid overview of the star-product theory (deformation of algebras of functions on phase space) and its applications to deformation-quantization. We then concentrate on Poisson-Lie groups and their “quantization”, give a star-product realization of quantum groups and discuss uniqueness and the rigidity as bialgebra of a universal model for the quantum SL(2) groups. In the last part we develop the notion of closed star-product (for which a trace can be defined on the algebra), show that it is classified by cyclic cohomology, permits to define a character and that there always exists one; finally we show that the pseudodifferential calculus on a …
Spectral invariance, ellipticity, and the Fredholm property for pseudodifferential operators on weighted Sobolev spaces
1992
The pseudodifferential operators with symbols in the Grushin classes \~S inf0 supρ,δ , 0 ≤ δ < ρ ≤ 1, of slowly varying symbols are shown to form spectrally invariant unital Frecher-*-algebras (Ψ*-algebras) in L(L 2(R n )) and in L(H γ st ) for weighted Sobolev spaces H infγ sup defined via a weight d function γ. In all cases, the Fredholm property of an operator can be characterized by uniform ellipticity of the symbol. This gives a converse to theorems of Grushin and Kumano-Ta-Taniguchi. Both, the spectrum and the Fredholm spectrum of an operator turn out to be independent of the choices of s, t and γ. The characterization of the Fredholm property by uniform ellipticity leads to an index …
Abelian varieties and theta functions associated to compact Riemannian manifolds; constructions inspired by superstring theory
2012
We look into a construction of principal abelian varieties attached to certain spin manifolds, due to Witten and Moore-Witten around 2000 and try to place it in a broader framework. This is related to Weil intermediate Jacobians but it also suggests to associate abelian varieties to polarized even weight Hodge structures. The latter construction can also be explained in terms of algebraic groups which might be useful from the point of view of Tannakian categories. The constructions depend on moduli much as in Teichm\"uller theory although the period maps in general are only real analytic. One of the nice features is how the index for certain differential operators canonically associated to …
The index theorem on the lattice with improved fermion actions
1998
We consider a Wilson-Dirac operator with improved chiral properties. We show that, for arbitrarily rough gauge fields, it satisfies the index theorem if we identify the zero modes with the small real eigenvalues of the fermion operator and use the geometrical definition of topological charge. This is also confirmed in a numerical study of the quenched Schwinger model. These results suggest that integer definitions of the topological charge based on counting real modes of the Wilson operator are equivalent to the geometrical definition. The problem of exceptional configurations and the sign problem in simulations with an odd number of dynamical Wilson fermions are briefly discussed. We consi…