An Analytic Approach to Spectral Flow in von Neumann Algebras

Details An Analytic Approach to Spectral Flow in von Neumann Algebras An Analytic Approach to Spectral Flow in von Neumann Algebras

2005-12-20

arxiv.org/abs/math/0512454v1

Mathematics

Operator Algebras

44 pages, to appear in Spectral and Geometric Analysis on Manifolds, World Scientific

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The analytic approach to spectral flow is about ten years old. In that time it has evolved to cover an ever wider range of examples. The most critical extension was to replace Fredholm operators in the classical sense by Breuer-Fredholm operators in a semifinite von Neumann algebra. The first part of this paper gives a brief account of this theory extending and refining earlier results. It is then applied in the latter parts of the paper to a series of examples. One of the most powerful tools is an integral formula for spectral flow. This integral formula was known for Dirac operators in a variety of forms ever since the fundamental papers of Atiyah, Patodi and Singer. One of the purposes of this exposition is to make contact with this early work so that one can understand the recent developments in a proper historical context. In addition we show how to derive these spectral flow formulae in the setting of Dirac operators on (non-compact) covering spaces of a compact spin manifold using the adiabatic method. Finally we relate our work to that of Coburn, Douglas, Schaeffer and Singer on Toeplitz operators with almost periodic symbol. We generalise their work to cover the case of matrix valued almost periodic symbols on \R^N using some ideas of Shubin.

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