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The index of hypoelliptic operators on (regular) Carnot manifolds
20 Dec
20. December 2021
Oberseminar Analysis und Theoretische Physik

# The index of hypoelliptic operators on (regular) Carnot manifolds

We will discuss the index theory of hypoelliptic operators on Carnot manifolds – manifolds whose Lie algebra of vector fields is equipped with a filtering induced from a filtration of sub-bundles of the tangent bundle. Under the additional assumption that the Carnot manifold is regular, i.e. has isomorphic osculating Lie algebras in all fibres, and admits a flat coadjoint orbit, we provide a solution to the index problem for Heisenberg elliptic pseudodifferential operators in terms of geometric K-homology. This result extends work of Baum and van Erp on contact manifold. Up to a technical issue of constructing a global Hilbert space bundle of representations associated to the flat coadjoint orbits via Kirillov’s orbit method, the problem is reduced to computations in the K-theory of twisted groupoid C*-algebras. Examples of index theorems that follow from this solution cover Toeplitz operators and operators of the form $\Delta_H+\gamma T$ on regular polycontact manifolds. Joint work with Alexey Kuzmin.

## Speaker

Dr. Magnus Goffeng, Lund University

## Organiser

Institut für Analysis

### Date

20. December 2021
16:00 o'clock - 18:00 o'clock

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