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- From: Allan Adler <ara@zurich.ai.mit.edu>
- Subject: Index theory?
- Message-ID: <ARA.92Nov23113733@camelot.ai.mit.edu>
- Originator: dan@symcom.math.uiuc.edu
- Sender: Daniel Grayson <dan@math.uiuc.edu>
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- Approved: Daniel Grayson <dan@math.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 16:37:33 GMT
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- Let k be a field and M a graded vector space over k. Asssume that each
- homogeneous part of M is finite dimensional over k. If T is an operator
- on the M preserving degrees, then we can define the "trace" of T on M
- as a formal power series in an indeterminate u whose coefficient of degree
- n is the trace of the operator T acting on the degree n part of M.
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- Now let f be a homogeneous polynomial of degree q+1 in r variables x_1,...,x_r,
- q>2, with coefficients in k and form the Koszul complex of f (or its dual),
- i.e. the complex of differential forms with polynomial coefficients
- and where the differential is wedging with the total differential of f.
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- For each i, let a_i be a nonzero element of k and suppose that the substitution
- T: x_i |--> a_i x_i preserves the homogeneous polynomial f. Then T acts on
- the terms of the Koszul complex and I will continue to refer to these
- actions by T, as well as the action on the cohomology.
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- It is alleged that the "trace" of T on the cohomology is
- the product over i of (u^q-a_i)/(u^{-1}-a_i) in case f is nonsingular.
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- Can someone supply a proof? Presumably this is done by computing the "traces"
- on the Koszul complex itself.
-
- I would also be intersted in knowing of places in the literature where
- these kinds of computations are done (including these "traces")
- so I can read about it. For example, I am under the impression that
- they arise in certain approaches to index theory, but I don't know where.
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- Ignorantly,
- Allan Adler
- ara@altdorf.ai.mit.edu
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