Signatures and Higher Signatures of $S^1$-Quotients
Differential Geometry
2007-05-23 v3
Abstract
We define and study the signature, A-hat genus and higher signatures of the quotient space of an -action on a closed oriented manifold. We give applications to questions of positive scalar curvature and to an Equivariant Novikov Conjecture.
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@article{arxiv.math/9804105,
title = {Signatures and Higher Signatures of $S^1$-Quotients},
author = {John Lott},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/9804105},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
35 pages, Theorem 2 added