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Main Author: Orduz, Juan Camilo
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Published: 2018
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.04840
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contents John Lott defined an integer-valued signature $σ_{S^1}(M)$ for the orbit space of a compact orientable manifold with a semi-free $S^1$-action but he did not construct a Dirac-type operator which has this signature as its index. We construct such operator on the orbit space and we show that it is essentially unique and that its index coincides with Lott's signature, at least when the stratified space satisfies the so-called Witt condition. For the non-Witt case, this operator remains essentially self-adjoint (in contrast to the Hodge de-Rham operator) and it has a well defined index which we conjecture will also compute $σ_{S^1}(M)$. This article is a condensed version of the original author's PhD Thesis where the theory of induced Dirac-Schrödinger-type operators is developed in detail.
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spellingShingle The $S^1$-Equivariant signature for semi-free actions as an index formula
Orduz, Juan Camilo
Differential Geometry
John Lott defined an integer-valued signature $σ_{S^1}(M)$ for the orbit space of a compact orientable manifold with a semi-free $S^1$-action but he did not construct a Dirac-type operator which has this signature as its index. We construct such operator on the orbit space and we show that it is essentially unique and that its index coincides with Lott's signature, at least when the stratified space satisfies the so-called Witt condition. For the non-Witt case, this operator remains essentially self-adjoint (in contrast to the Hodge de-Rham operator) and it has a well defined index which we conjecture will also compute $σ_{S^1}(M)$. This article is a condensed version of the original author's PhD Thesis where the theory of induced Dirac-Schrödinger-type operators is developed in detail.
title The $S^1$-Equivariant signature for semi-free actions as an index formula
topic Differential Geometry
url https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.04840