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Product formula for Atiyah-Patodi-Singer index classes and higher signatures

Differential Geometry 2009-04-14 v2 K-Theory and Homology

Abstract

We define generalized Atiyah-Patodi-Singer boundary conditions of product type for Dirac operators associated to C*-vector bundles on the product of a compact manifold with boundary and a closed manifold. We prove a product formula for the K-theoretic index classes, which we use to generalize the product formula for the topological signature to higher signatures.

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@article{arxiv.0811.0091,
  title  = {Product formula for Atiyah-Patodi-Singer index classes and higher signatures},
  author = {Charlotte Wahl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.0091},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

33 pages; revised and expanded, for the odd signature class more general definition (depending on a Lagrangian) used