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The flat Grothendieck-Riemann-Roch theorem without adiabatic techniques

Differential Geometry 2016-07-06 v6 K-Theory and Homology

Abstract

In this paper we give a simplified proof of the flat Grothendieck-Riemann-Roch theorem. The proof makes use of the local family index theorem and basic computations of the Chern-Simons form. In particular, it does not involve any adiabatic limit computation of the reduced eta-invariant.

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@article{arxiv.1203.3250,
  title  = {The flat Grothendieck-Riemann-Roch theorem without adiabatic techniques},
  author = {Man-Ho Ho},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.3250},
  year   = {2016}
}

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21 pages. Comments are welcome. Final version. To appear in Journal of Geometry and Physics

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