The index of self-adjoint Shapiro-Lopatinskii boundary problems of order one
Abstract
The paper is devoted to an analogue of Atiyah-Bott-Singer index theorem for families of self-adjoint elliptic (i.e. satisfying the Shapiro-Lopatinskii condition) local boundary problems of order 1. The proofs are based on classical topological and pseudo-differential methods, but in the self-adjoint case one encounters some new phenomena. The topological index is defined following Atiyah-Bott, but in the self-adjoint case one encounters an obstruction not present in the classical situation. The analytical index is defined with the help of author's approach arXiv:2111.15081, which generalized the one of Atiyah-Singer. On the analytic index side one encounters an obstruction to the realization of symbols by self-adjoint boundary problems, similar to the obstruction to defining the topological index. As an application, we generalize results of Gorokhovsky and Lesch arXiv:1310.0210. In the first version of this paper the index theorem was proved only under an additional technical assumption. A theory of multiplicative properties of symbols and operators, developed in the second version, allows to remove this assumption.
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@article{arxiv.2207.09574,
title = {The index of self-adjoint Shapiro-Lopatinskii boundary problems of order one},
author = {Nikolai V. Ivanov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.09574},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
120 pages. The second version substantially expands the first one. A theory of multiplicative properties of symbols and operators is added, the index theorem is proved in full generality, and realizations of symbols are related to the theory of boundary triplets. The third version differs by minor corrections and improvements