The eta invariant (some recent developments)
A perturbation of the de Rham complex was introduced by Witten for an exact 1-form and later extended by Novikov for a closed 1-form on a Riemannian manifold . We use invariance theory to show that the perturbed index density is independent of ; this result was established previously by J. A. Álvarez López, Y. A. Kordyukov and E. Leichtnam (2020) using other methods. We also show the higher order heat trace asymptotics of the perturbed de Rham complex exhibit nontrivial dependence on . We establish...
In this paper we prove a variety of results about the signature operator on Witt spaces. First, we give a parametrix construction for the signature operator on any compact, oriented, stratified pseudomanifold which satisfies the Witt condition. This construction, which is inductive over the ‘depth’ of the singularity, is then used to show that the signature operator is essentially self-adjoint and has discrete spectrum of finite multiplicity, so that its index—the analytic signature of —is well-defined....