Published in |
Journal of Gökova Geometry Topology, Volume 1 (2007) |
Title |
Dirac operators on manifolds with periodic ends |
Author |
Daniel Ruberman and Nikolai Saveliev |
Abstract |
This paper studies Dirac operators on end-periodic spin manifolds
of dimension at least 4. We provide a necessary and sufficient
condition for such an operator to be Fredholm for a generic
end-periodic metric. We make use of end-periodic Dirac operators
to give an analytical interpretation of an invariant of
non-orientable smooth 4-manifolds due to Cappell and Shaneson.
From this interpretation we show that some exotic non-orientable
4-manifolds do not admit a metric of positive scalar curvature.
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Pages | 33-50 |
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Submitted: | April 12, 2007 |
Revised: | September 12, 2007 |
Accepted: | September 14, 2007 |
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