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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820401703321

Autore

Lott John <1959->

Titolo

Diffeomorphisms and noncommutative analytic torsion / / John Lott

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [1999]

©1999

ISBN

1-4704-0264-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (71 p.)

Collana

Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, , 0065-9266 ; ; number 673

Disciplina

510 s

514/.42

Soggetti

Diffeomorphisms

Index theorems

Noncommutative differential geometry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"September 1999, volume 141, number 673 (third of 4 numbers)."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 55-56).

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. Noncommutative Bundle Theory""; ""2.1. Noncommutative Differential Forms""; ""2.2. Noncommutative Connections and Chern Character""; ""2.3. Chern�Simons Classes of Partially Flat Connections""; ""3. Groups and Covering Spaces""; ""3.1. Cyclic Cohomology of Group Algebras""; ""3.2. Noncommutative Geometry of Covering Spaces""; ""4. B�Hermitian Metrics and Characteristic Classes""; ""4.1. B�Hermitian Metrics""; ""4.2. B�Hermitian Metrics, Group Algebras and Assembly Maps""; ""5. Noncommutative Superconnections""

""5.1. Partially Flat Superconnections""""5.2. A Finite�Dimensional Index Theorem""; ""5.3. The Analytic Torsion Form""; ""6. Fiber Bundles""; ""6.1. B�Pseudodifferential Calculus""; ""6.2. Induced Superconnections""; ""6.3. Small Time Limits""; ""6.4. Index Theorems""; ""6.5. The Analytic Torsion Form II""; ""7. Diffeomorphism Groups""; ""7.1. Free Abelian Fundamental Groups""; ""7.2. General Fundamental Groups""; ""References""