The Invariance of the Index of Elliptic Operators

نویسندگان

  • Constantine Caramanis
  • Sanjay Menon
  • Michael Emanuel
  • Thomas Knox
  • Demian Ordway
  • Benjamin Stephens
چکیده

In 1963 Atiyah and Singer proved the famous Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem, which states, among other things, that the space of elliptic pseudodifferential operators is such that the collection of operators with any given index forms a connected subset. Contained in this statement is the somewhat more specialized claim that the index of an elliptic operator must be invariant under sufficiently small perturbations. By developing the machinery of distributions and in particular Sobolev spaces, this paper addresses this more specific part of the famous Theorem from a completely analytic approach. We first prove the regularity of elliptic operators, then the finite dimensionality of the kernel and cokernel, and finally the invariance of the index under small perturbations. ∗[email protected]

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تاریخ انتشار 1999