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Projective Families of Dirac operators on a Banach Lie Groupoid

K-Theory and Homology 2016-08-29 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP Representation Theory

Abstract

We introduce a Banach Lie group GG of unitary operators subject to a natural trace condition. We compute the homotopy groups of GG, describe its cohomology and construct an S1S^1-central extension. We show that the central extension determines a non-trivial gerbe on the action Lie groupoid GkG\ltimes \mathfrak{k}, where k\mathfrak{k} denotes the Hilbert space of self-adjoint Hilbert-Schmidt operators. With an eye towards constructing elements in twisted K-theory, we prove the existence of a cubic Dirac operator D\mathbb{D} in a suitable completion of the quantum Weil algebra U(g)Cl(k)\mathcal{U}(\mathfrak{g}) \otimes Cl(\mathfrak{k}), which is subsequently extended to a projective family of self-adjoint operators DA\mathbb{D}_A on GkG\ltimes \frak{k}. While the kernel of DA\mathbb{D}_A is infinite-dimensional, we show that there is still a notion of finite reducibility at every point, which suggests a generalized definition of twisted K-theory for action Lie groupoids.

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@article{arxiv.1404.1754,
  title  = {Projective Families of Dirac operators on a Banach Lie Groupoid},
  author = {Pedram Hekmati and Jouko Mickelsson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.1754},
  year   = {2016}
}

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22 pages