Vladimir E. Nazaikinskii, Anton Yu. Savin, Boris Yu. Sternin.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Boston :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Birkhäuser,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c2008.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (xii, 224 p.) :
Other Physical Details
ill.
SERIES
Series Title
Advances in partial differential equations.
Volume Designation
v. 183.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-221) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction; Nonlocal Functions and Bundles; Nonlocal Elliptic Operators; Elliptic Operators over C *-Algebras; Homotopy Classification; Analytic Invariants; Bott Periodicity; Direct Image and Index Formulas in K -Theory; Chern Character; Cohomological Index Formula; Cohomological Formula for the .-Index; Index of Nonlocal Operators over C *-Algebras; Index Formula on the Noncommutative Torus; An Application of Higher Traces; Index Formula for a Finite Group.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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The book deals with nonlocal elliptic differential operators. These are operators whose coefficients involve shifts generated by diffeomorphisms of the manifold on which the operators are defined. The main goal of the study is to relate analytical invariants (in particular, the index) of such operators to topological invariants of the manifold itself. This problem can be solved by modern methods of noncommutative geometry. To make the book self-contained, the authors have included necessary geometric material (C*-algebras and their K-theory, cyclic homology, etc.).