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The index of elliptic operators on manifolds with conical points

For general elliptic pseudodifferential operators on manifolds with singular points, we prove an algebraic index formula. In this formula the symbolic contributions from the interior and from the singular points are explicitly singled out. For two-dimensional manifolds, the interior contribution is reduced to the Atiyah-Singer integral over the cosphere bundle while two additional terms arise. The first of the two is one half of the 'eta' invariant associated to the conormal symbol of the operator at singular points. The second term is also completely determined by the conormal symbol. The example of the Cauchy-Riemann operator on the complex plane shows that all the three terms may be non-zero.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:Potsdam/oai:kobv.de-opus-ubp:2509
Date January 1997
CreatorsFedosov, Boris, Schulze, Bert-Wolfgang, Tarkhanov, Nikolai
PublisherUniversität Potsdam, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät. Institut für Mathematik
Source SetsPotsdam University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypePreprint
Formatapplication/pdf
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