Geometrische Indextheorie für Mannigfaltigkeiten mit Ecken

Antragsteller: Ulrich Bunke

Finanzierung: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

Programm: Schwerpunktprogramm Globale Differentialgeometrie

Laufzeit: 2 Jahre

Mitarbeiter: Robert Waldmüller

Zusammenfassung: One of the aims of the project is to develop the appropriate language of index theory for manifolds with corners. Families are considered in order to exhibit the geometric nature of the objects involved. The model cases are the interpretation of the eta-invariant of a manifold with corners as an element in a determinant line associated to the boundary, or as an element of the line, which arises as the difference of the two trivializations of  the "two-line" associated to the corner of codimension two,  which are given by the codimension-one faces.