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The Atiyah Patodi Singer index formula for measured foliations

Differential Geometry 2009-07-07 v1

Abstract

Let X0X_0 be a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary endowed with a oriented, measured even dimensional foliation with purely transverse boundary. Let XX be the manifold with cylinder attached and extended foliation. We prove that the L2L^2--measured index of a Dirac type operator is well defined and the following Atiyah Patodi Singer index formula is true indL2,Λ(D+)=<A^(X,)Ch(E/S),CΛ>+1/2[ηΛ(DF)hΛ++hΛ].ind_{L^2,\Lambda}(D^+) = <\widehat{A}(X,\nabla)Ch(E/S),C_\Lambda> + 1/2[\eta_\Lambda(D^{\mathcal{F}_\partial}) - h^+_\Lambda + h^-_\Lambda]. Here Λ\Lambda is a holonomy invariant transverse measure, ηΛ(DF)\eta_{\Lambda}(D^{\mathcal{F}_{\partial}}) is the Ramachandran eta invariant \cite{Rama} of the leafwise boundary operator and the Λ\Lambda--dimensions hΛ±h^\pm_\Lambda of the space of the limiting values of extended solutions is suitably defined using square integrable representations of the equivalence relation of the foliation with values on weighted Sobolev spaces on the leaves.

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@article{arxiv.0907.0800,
  title  = {The Atiyah Patodi Singer index formula for measured foliations},
  author = {Paolo Antonini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.0800},
  year   = {2009}
}