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The Atiyah-Singer index theorem is generalized to a two-dimensional SO(3) Yang-Mills-Higgs (YMH) system. The generalized theorem is proven by using the heat kernel method and a nonlinear realization of SU(2) gauge symmetry. This theorem is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-03-19 Shinichi Deguchi

The purpose of this article is to study Ezra Getzler's approach to the Atiyah-Singer index theorem from the perspective of Alain Connes' tangent groupoid. We shall construct a "rescaled" spinor bundle on the tangent groupoid, define a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-25 Nigel Higson , Zelin Yi

Atiyah-Singer index theorem on a lattice without boundary is well understood owing to the seminal work by Hasenfratz et al. But its extension to the system with boundary (the so-called Atiyah- Patodi-Singer index theorem), which plays a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-01-13 Hidenori Fukaya , Naoki Kawai , Yoshiyuki Matsuki , Makito Mori , Katsumasa Nakayama , Tetsuya Onogi , Satoshi Yamaguchi

We construct eta- and rho-invariants for Dirac operators, on the universal covering of a closed manifold, that are invariant under the projective action associated to a 2-cocycle of the fundamental group. We prove an Atiyah-Patodi-Singer…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-04-16 Sara Azzali , Charlotte Wahl

In this paper, nonholonomic gerbes will be naturally derived for manifolds and vector bundle spaces provided with nonintegrable distributions (in brief, nonholonomic spaces). An important example of such gerbes is related to distributions…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-01-11 Sergiu I. Vacaru

The Atiyah-Singer index theorem, a cornerstone of modern mathematics, has traditionally been derived from supersymmetric (SUSY) physics. This paper demonstrates a direct derivation from non-supersymmetric quantum statistics by establishing…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Shunrui Li , Yang Liu

We present the details of our embedding proof of the Atiyah-Patodi-Singer index theorem for Dirac operators on manifolds with boundary.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Xianzhe Dai , Weiping Zhang

We extend the Atiyah, Patodi, and Singer index theorem for first order differential operators from the context of manifolds with cylindrical ends to manifolds with periodic ends. This theorem provides a natural complement to Taubes'…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Tomasz Mrowka , Daniel Ruberman , Nikolai Saveliev

We show that the Atiyah-Singer index theorem of Dirac operator can be directly proved in the canonical formulation of quantum mechanics, without using the path-integral technique. This proof takes advantage of an algebraic isomorphism…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-07-05 Zixian Zhou , Xiuqing Duan , Kai-Jia Sun

Using semi-classical analysis in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ we present a quite general model for which the topological index formula of Atiyah-Singer predicts a spectral flow with the transition of a finite number of eigenvalues between clusters…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Frédéric Faure

This expository paper is an introductory text on topological K-theory and the Atiyah-Singer index theorem, suitable for graduate students or advanced undegraduates already possessing a background in algebraic topology. The bulk of the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Gregory D. Landweber

We give a very simple derivation of the Atiyah-Patodi-Singer (APS) index theorem and its small generalization by using the path integral of massless Dirac fermions. It is based on the Fujikawa's argument for the relation between the axial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-28 Shun K. Kobayashi , Kazuya Yonekura

We give a cohomological formula for the index of a fully elliptic pseudodifferential operator on a manifold with boundary. As in the classic case of Atiyah-Singer, we use an embedding into an euclidean space to express the index as the…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2013-12-16 Paulo Carrillo Rouse , Jean-Marie Lescure , Bertrand Monthubert

We review the derivation of the Atiyah-Singer and Callias index theorems using the recently developed localization method to calculate exactly the relevant supersymmetric path integrals. (Talk given at the III International Conference on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-01 Antero Hietamäki

The Atiyah-Patodi-Singer index theorem describes the bulk-edge correspondence of symmetry protected topological insulators. The mathematical setup for this theorem is, however, not directly related to the physical fermion system, as it…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-01-07 Hidenori Fukaya , Mikio Furuta , Shinichiroh Matsuo , Tetsuya Onogi , Satoshi Yamaguchi , Mayuko Yamashita

The Atiyah-Patodi-Singer (APS) index theorem relates the index of a Dirac operator to an integral of the Pontryagin density in the bulk (which is equal to global chiral anomaly) and an $\eta$ invariant on the boundary (which defines the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-22 Dmitri Vassilevich

We introduce a mathematician-friendly formulation of the physicist-friendly derivation of the Atiyah-Patodi-Singer index of our previous paper. Our viewpoint sheds some new light on the interplay among the Atiyah-Patodi-Singer boundary…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-08-26 Hidenori Fukaya , Mikio Furuta , Shinichiroh Matsuo , Tetsuya Onogi , Satoshi Yamaguchi , Mayuko Yamashita

The Atiyah-Patodi-Singer(APS) index theorem attracts attention for understanding physics on the surface of materials in topological phases. The mathematical set-up for this theorem is, however, not directly related to the physical fermion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-12 Hidenori Fukaya , Tetsuya Onogi , Satoshi Yamaguchi

These are notes from a talk at the 2010 Talbot Workshop on Twisted K-theory and Loop Groups. This particular talk is an overview of index theory from the point of view of topological K-theory. Assuming little background in analysis, but…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2010-10-26 Chris Kottke

This paper is a continuation of arXiv:0706.3511, where we obtained a local index formula for matrix elliptic operators with shifts. Here we establish a cohomological index formula of Atiyah-Singer type for elliptic differential operators…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2007-07-27 V. E. Nazaikinskii , A. Yu. Savin , B. Yu. Sternin