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Cusp geometry and the cobordism invariance of the index

Differential Geometry 2007-05-23 v3 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

The cobordism invariance of the index on closed manifolds is reproved using the calculus of cusp pseudodifferential operators on a manifold with boundary. More generally, on a compact manifold with corners, the existence of a symmetric cusp differential operator of order 1 and of Dirac type near the boundary implies that the sum of the indices of the induced operators on the hyperfaces is null.

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@article{arxiv.math/0305395,
  title  = {Cusp geometry and the cobordism invariance of the index},
  author = {Sergiu Moroianu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0305395},
  year   = {2007}
}

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17 pages, abridged version, to appear in Adv. Math