A splitting formula for the spectral flow of the odd signature operator on 3-manifolds coupled to a path of connections.
Counterexamples to the Strichartz inequalities for the wave equation in general domains with boundary
In this paper we consider a smooth and bounded domain of dimension with boundary and we construct sequences of solutions to the wave equation with Dirichlet boundary condition which contradict the Strichartz estimates of the free space, providing losses of derivatives at least for a subset of the usual range of indices. This is due to microlocal phenomena such as caustics generated in arbitrarily small time near the boundary. Moreover, the result holds for microlocally strictly convex domains...
Gauge theoretic invariants of Dehn surgeries on knots.
General spectral flow formula for fixed maximal domain
We consider a continuous curve of linear elliptic formally self-adjoint differential operators of first order with smooth coefficients over a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary together with a continuous curve of global elliptic boundary value problems. We express the spectral flow of the resulting continuous family of (unbounded) self-adjoint Fredholm operators in terms of the Maslov index of two related curves of Lagrangian spaces. One curve is given by the varying domains, the other by...
Geometric Fokker-Planck equations.
Half-delocalization of eigenfunctions for the Laplacian on an Anosov manifold
We study the high-energy eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on a compact Riemannian manifold with Anosov geodesic flow. The localization of a semiclassical measure associated with a sequence of eigenfunctions is characterized by the Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy of this measure. We show that this entropy is necessarily bounded from below by a constant which, in the case of constant negative curvature, equals half the maximal entropy. In this sense, high-energy eigenfunctions are at least half-delocalized....
Homological index formulas for elliptic operators over C*-algebras.
Morse index and bifurcation of p-geodesics on semi Riemannian manifolds
Given a one-parameter family of semi Riemannian metrics on an n-dimensional manifold M, a family of time-dependent potentials and a family of trajectories connecting two points of the mechanical system defined by , we show that there are trajectories bifurcating from the trivial branch if the generalized Morse indices and are different. If the data are analytic we obtain estimates for the number of bifurcation points on the branch and, in particular, for the number of strictly conjugate...
On the rho invariant for manifolds with boundary.
Quantum gravity: unification of principles and interactions, and promises of spectral geometry.
Surgery and the relative index in elliptic theory.