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The index of higher order operators on singular surfaces

The index formula for elliptic pseudodifferential operators on a two-dimensional manifold with conical points contains the Atiyah-Singer integral as well as two additional terms. One of the two is the 'eta' invariant defined by the conormal symbol, and the other term is explicitly expressed via the principal and subprincipal symbols of the operator at conical points. In the preceding paper we clarified the meaning of the additional terms for first-order differential operators. The aim of this paper is an explicit description of the contribution of a conical point for higher-order differential operators. We show that changing the origin in the complex plane reduces the entire
contribution of the conical point to the shifted 'eta' invariant. In turn this latter is expressed in terms of the monodromy matrix for an ordinary differential equation defined by the conormal symbol.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:Potsdam/oai:kobv.de-opus-ubp:2512
Date January 1998
CreatorsFedosov, Boris, Schulze, Bert-Wolfgang, Tarkhanov, Nikolai N.
PublisherUniversität Potsdam, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät. Institut für Mathematik
Source SetsPotsdam University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypePreprint
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