Indefinite Kasparov modules and pseudo-Riemannian manifolds

Authors

Koen van den Dungen, University of WollongongFollow
Adam C. Rennie, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

106456

Publication Details

van den Dungen, K. & Rennie, A. (2016). Indefinite Kasparov modules and pseudo-Riemannian manifolds. Annales Henri Poincare, 17 (11), 3255-3286.

Abstract

We present a definition of indefinite Kasparov modules, a generalisation of unbounded Kasparov modules modelling non-symmetric and non-elliptic (e.g. hyperbolic) operators. Our main theorem shows that to each indefinite Kasparov module we can associate a pair of (genuine) Kasparov modules, and that this process is reversible. We present three examples of our framework: the Dirac operator on a pseudo-Riemannian spin manifold (i.e. a manifold with an indefinite metric); the harmonic oscillator; and the construction via the Kasparov product of an indefinite spectral triple from a family of spectral triples. This last construction corresponds to a foliation of a globally hyperbolic spacetime by spacelike hypersurfaces.