Bastien Jean
22/09/2022 à 17:00:00 - 22/09/2022 à 18:00:00
Titre du séminaire
On Von Neumann dimension and the Atiyah L2 index theorem
Résumé
The aim of this talk is to explain the L2-index theorem of Atiyah. Consider a Riemannian manifold M̃ endowed with a free and proper action of a discrete group Γ with compact quotient M:=M̃ /Γ, we are interested in the study of an elliptic differential operator D̃ between hermitian vector bundle on M̃ obtained as the lifting of a differential operator D on M. If Γ is finite, the usual index theorem gives us index(D̃ )=|Γ|⋅index(D). The Atiyah index theorem is a generalisation including the case of infinite covering, however in this setting the index of D̃ is not well defined due to the non-compactness of M̃ and to solve this problem we will first need to introduce the notion of Γ-dimension defined by Von Neumann.
Institution de l'oratrice/orateur
institut Fourier
Thème de recherche
Compréhensible
Salle
4