Heat Kernels and Dirac Operators

Berline, Nicole;Vergne, Michele;Getzler, Ezra;Berline, N.;Vergne, Michle

ISBN 10: 3540200622 / ISBN 13: 9783540200628

Published by Secaucus, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Springer Verlag, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Heat Kernels and Dirac Operators
• Publisher: Secaucus, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Springer Verlag
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540200622
• ISBN 13: 9783540200628
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: International Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New

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Synopsis

The first edition of this book presented simple proofs of the Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem for Dirac operators on compact Riemannian manifolds and its generalizations (due to the authors and J.-M. Bismut), using an explicit geometric construction of the heat kernel of a generalized Dirac operator; the new edition makes this popular book available to students and researchers in an attractive softcover. The first four chapters could be used as the text for a graduate course on the applications of linear elliptic operators in differential geometry and the only prerequisites are a familiarity with basic differential geometry. The next four chapters discuss the equivariant index theorem, and include a useful introduction to equivariant differential forms. The last two chapters give a proof, in the spirit of the book, of Bismut's Local Family Index Theorem for Dirac operators.

From the Back Cover

In the first edition of this book, simple proofs of the Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem for Dirac operators on compact Riemannian manifolds and its generalizations (due to the authors and J.-M. Bismut) were presented, using an explicit geometric construction of the heat kernel of a generalized Dirac operator; the new edition makes this popular book available to students and researchers in an attractive paperback. The first four chapters could be used as the text for a graduate course on the applications of linear elliptic operators in differential geometry and the only prerequisites are a familiarity with basic differential geometry. The next four chapters discuss the equivariant index theorem, and include a useful introduction to equivariant differential forms. The last two chapters give a proof, in the spirit of the book, of Bismut's Local Family Index Theorem for Dirac operators. This book will be of interest to graduate students and researchers in differential geometry, Arakelov geometry, group representation theory and mathematical physics.