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posted on 2019-09-20, 11:11authored byChristian Baer, Alexander Strohmaier
We show that the Dirac operator on a compact globally hyperbolic Lorentzian spacetime with spacelike Cauchy boundary is a Fredholm operator if appropriate boundary conditions are imposed. We prove that the index of this operator is given by the same expression as in the index formula of Atiyah-Patodi-Singer for Riemannian manifolds with boundary. The index is also shown to equal that of a certain operator constructed from the evolution operator and a spectral projection on the boundary. In case the metric is of product type near the boundary a Feynman parametrix is constructed.
History
School
Science
Department
Mathematical Sciences
Published in
American Journal of Mathematics
Volume
141
Issue
5
Pages
1421 - 1455
Citation
BÄR, C. and STROHMAIER, A., 2018. An index theorem for Lorentzian manifolds with compact spacelike Cauchy boundary. American Journal of Mathematics, In Press.
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