TY - JOUR
T1 - Relative Chern character, boundaries and index formulas
AU - Albin, Pierre
AU - Melrose, Richard
N1 - Funding Information:
P. Albin was partially supported by a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship. R. Melrose was partially supported by National Science Foundation grant DMS-0408993.
PY - 2009/9
Y1 - 2009/9
N2 - For three classes of elliptic pseudodifferential operators on a compact manifold with boundary which have "geometric K-theory", namely the "transmission algebra" introduced by Boutet de Monvel [5], the "zero algebra" introduced by Mazzeo in [9, 10] and the "scattering algebra" from [16], we give explicit formulas for the Chern character of the index bundle in terms of the symbols (including normal operators at the boundary) of a Fredholm family of fiber operators. This involves appropriate descriptions, in each case, of the cohomology with compact supports in the interior of the total space of a vector bundle over a manifold with boundary in which the Chern character, mapping from the corresponding realization of K-theory, naturally takes values.
AB - For three classes of elliptic pseudodifferential operators on a compact manifold with boundary which have "geometric K-theory", namely the "transmission algebra" introduced by Boutet de Monvel [5], the "zero algebra" introduced by Mazzeo in [9, 10] and the "scattering algebra" from [16], we give explicit formulas for the Chern character of the index bundle in terms of the symbols (including normal operators at the boundary) of a Fredholm family of fiber operators. This involves appropriate descriptions, in each case, of the cohomology with compact supports in the interior of the total space of a vector bundle over a manifold with boundary in which the Chern character, mapping from the corresponding realization of K-theory, naturally takes values.
KW - Atiyah-Bott index theorem
KW - Atiyah-Singer index theorem
KW - Boutet de Monvel index theorem
KW - Chern character
KW - boundary value problems
KW - scattering calculus
KW - smooth K-theory
KW - zero calculus
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U2 - 10.1142/S1793525309000151
DO - 10.1142/S1793525309000151
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:83455242553
SN - 1793-5253
VL - 1
SP - 207
EP - 250
JO - Journal of Topology and Analysis
JF - Journal of Topology and Analysis
IS - 3
ER -