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Riemannian submersions and factorization of Dirac operators

K-Theory and Homology 2016-10-11 v1 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We establish the factorization of Dirac operators on Riemannian submersions of compact spinc^c manifolds in unbounded KK-theory. More precisely, we show that the Dirac operator on the total space of such a submersion is unitarily equivalent to the tensor sum of a family of Dirac operators with the Dirac operator on the base space, up to an explicit bounded curvature term. Thus, the latter is an obstruction to having a factorization in unbounded KK-theory. We show that our tensor sum represents the bounded KK-product of the corresponding KK-cycles and connect to the early work of Connes and Skandalis.

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@article{arxiv.1610.02873,
  title  = {Riemannian submersions and factorization of Dirac operators},
  author = {Jens Kaad and Walter D. van Suijlekom},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.02873},
  year   = {2016}
}

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26 pages