L2-index theorems on locally symmetric spaces.
The Koszul complex, as introduced in 1950, was a differential graded algebra which modelled a principal fibre bundle. Since then it has been an effective tool, both in algebra and in topology, for the calculation of homological and homotopical invariants. After a partial summary of these results we recall more recent generalizations of this complex, and some applications.
A reflexion space is generalization of a symmetric space introduced by O. Loos in [4]. We generalize locally symmetric spaces to local reflexion spaces in the similar way. We investigate, when local reflexion spaces are equivalently given by a locally flat Cartan connection of certain type.
We use reflections with respect to submanifolds and related geometric results to develop, inspired by the work of Ferus and other authors, in a unified way a local theory of extrinsic symmetric immersions and submanifolds in a general analytic Riemannian manifold and in locally symmetric spaces. In particular we treat the case of real and complex space forms and study additional relations with holomorphic and symplectic reflections when the ambient space is almost Hermitian. The global case is also...