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Noncommutative Maslov Index and Eta Forms

K-Theory and Homology 2007-05-23 v2 Operator Algebras

Abstract

We define and prove a noncommutative generalization of a formula relating the Maslov index of a triple of Lagrangian subspaces of a symplectic vector space to eta-invariants associated to a pair of Lagrangian subspaces generalizing a result of Bunke and Koch in the family case. The noncommutative Maslov index, defined for modules over a CC^*-algebra \A\A, is an element in K0(\A)K_0(\A). The generalized formula calculates its Chern character in the de Rham homology of certain dense subalgebras of \A\A. The proof, modelled on the proof by Bunke and Koch, is a noncommutative Atiyah-Patodi-Singer index theorem for a particular Dirac operator twisted by an \A\A-vector bundle. We develop an analytic framework for this type of index problem.

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@article{arxiv.math/0309323,
  title  = {Noncommutative Maslov Index and Eta Forms},
  author = {Charlotte Wahl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0309323},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

122 pages, 1 figure; based on the author's PhD-thesis; Changes in Introduction, \S 1.3, \S 4.5 added, new notion of trace class operators, some streamlining