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Geometric Analysis Seminar

Event Type
Seminar/Symposium
Sponsor
Department of Mathematics
Location
Transportation Building 203
Virtual
wifi event
Date
May 6, 2025   3:30 pm  
Speaker
Alex Taylor (Illinois)
Contact
Pierre Albin, Eric Chen, Pei-Ken Hung, Gabriele La Nave
E-Mail
palbin@illinois.edu, ecchen@illinois.edu, pkhung@illinois.edu, lanave@illinois.edu
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Originating Calendar
Geometric Analysis Seminars

Title: An index formula for families of end-periodic Dirac operators

Abstract: The famous Atiyah-Patodi-Singer (APS) index theorem gives a geometric formula for the Fredholm index of a Dirac operator on a compact manifold with boundary. In 2014 Mrowka-Ruberman-Saveliev extended the theorem to end-periodic (asymptotically periodic) manifolds. On the other hand, there is a stronger version of the APS index theorem for families of Dirac operators established by Bismut-Cheeger (1990) and then further developed by Melrose-Piazza (1997). I'll discuss this story and present a new index formula for families of end-periodic Dirac operators. 

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