Analysis, Geometry and Topology
of Elliptic Operators, pp. 23-38
© 2006 World Scientific Publishing Co.
GLUING FORMULAE OF SPECTRAL INVARIANTS AND
CAUCHY DATA SPACES
JINSUNG PARK
School of Mathematics, Korea Institute for Advanced Study
207-43, Cheongnyangni 2-dong, Dongdaemun-gu
Seoul 130-722, Korea
[email protected]. kr
Dedicated to Krzysztof P. Wojciechowski on his 50th birthday
We review the gluing formulae of the spectral invariants - the ^-regularized deter
minant of a Laplace type operator and the eta invariant of a Dirac type operator.
In particular, we explain the crucial role of the Cauchy data spaces in these gluing
formulae.
2000 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 58J28; Secondary 58J52
1. Introduction
In this article, we survey the gluing formulae of the spectral invariants
- the ^-regularized determinant of a Laplace type operator and the eta
invariant of a Dirac type operator. After these spectral invariants had
been originally introduced by Ray and Singer [30] and Atiyah, Patodi, and
Singer [1] respectively, these invariants have been studied by many people
in many different parts of mathematics and physics. Here we discuss the
gluing formulae of these spectral invariants. These formulae have been
proved independently by several authors using different techniques. For
nice introductions to this subject, we refer to Bleecker and Boofi-Bavnbek
[3] and Mazzeo and Piazza [21] where the reader can find many technical
details and ideas of proofs. Therefore, instead of repeating the details of
these introductions, we explain one principle which holds for all the known
gluing formulae of the spectral invariants. This principle also enabled us to
get a new proof of the gluing formulae of the eta invariant of a Dirac type
operator and simultaneously to prove the gluing formula of the ^-regularized
determinant of a Dirac Laplacian [17], [18]. We hope that this article would
be helpful in the understanding of gluing formulae of the spectral invariants
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