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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480516203321

Titolo

Geometric and topological invariants of elliptic operators : proceedings of the AMS-IMS-SIAM joint summer research conference held July 23-29, 1988 with support from the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Army Research Office / / Jerome Kaminker, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [1990]

©1990

ISBN

0-8218-7693-7

0-8218-5438-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 p.)

Collana

Contemporary mathematics, , 0271-4132 ; ; 105

Disciplina

515/.7242

Soggetti

Elliptic operators

Invariants

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Asymptotic pseudodifferential operators and index theory""; ""A Lefschetz theorem on open manifolds""; ""Eta invariants and the odd index theorem for coverings""; ""The Lefschetz fixed point theorem for foliated manifolds""; ""L2-acyclicity and L2-torsion invariants""; ""Secondary characteristic numbers and locally free S1-actions""; ""L2-index theory, eta invariants and values of L-functions""; ""Non-commutative tori�A case study of non-commutative differentiable manifolds""; ""Analytic and combinatorial torsion""

""Pseudodifferential operators and K -homology, II""""The heat flow along the leaves of a Riemannian foliation""; ""Aspects of the Novikov conjecture""