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Atiyah-Singer Dirac Operator on spacetimes with non-compact Cauchy hypersurface

Differential Geometry 2021-07-20 v1

Abstract

Let MM be a globally hyperbolic manifold with complete spacelike Cauchy hypersurface ΣM\Sigma \subset M. Building on past and recent works of B\"ar and Strohmaier, we extend their Fredholm result of the Atiyah-Singer Dirac operator on compact Lorentzian spaces to the case, where MM is diffeomorphic to a product of Σ\Sigma with a compact time intervall and the hypersurface is a Galois covering with respect to a group Γ\Gamma. We follow the first approach of both authors in this extended setting, where a well-posedness result of the Cauchy problem for the Dirac operator on non-compact manifolds is needed in preparation. After employing von Neumann algebras and further ingredients for Galois coverings, the well-posedness result is specified for the setting of interest, which leads to Γ\Gamma-Fredholmness of the Dirac operator under APS boundary conditions.

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@article{arxiv.2107.08532,
  title  = {Atiyah-Singer Dirac Operator on spacetimes with non-compact Cauchy hypersurface},
  author = {Orville Damaschke},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.08532},
  year   = {2021}
}

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70 pages, no figures

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