Geometry & Dynamics Seminar

Monday, 29.12.2003, 16-17:30, Schreiber bldg., room 309.




Shlomo Sternberg, Harvard University

Geometrical Quantization Using the Atiyah-Singer Signature


Abstract
                           
We associate to  the action of a compact Lie group $G$ on a line bundle
over a compact oriented even-dimensional manifold a virtual representation
of $G$ using a twisted version of the signature operator introduced by
Atiyah and Singer. We obtain analogues of various theorems in the more

standard theory of geometric quantization.