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Ulrich Bunke
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In this paper, we study the family index of a family of spin manifolds. In particular, we discuss to which extend the real index (of the Dirac operator of the real spinor bundle if the fiber dimension is divisible by 8) which can be defined in this case contains extra information over the complex index (the index of its complexification). We study this question under the additional assumption that the complex index vanishes on the k-skeleton of B. In this case, using local index theory we define new analytical invariants $hat c_kin H^{k-1}(B;reals/integers)$. We then continue and describe these invariants in terms of known topological characteristic classes. Moreover, we show that it is an interesting new non-trivial invariant in many examples.
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Real index pairings of projections and unitaries on a separable Hilbert space with a real structure are defined when the projections and unitaries fulfill symmetry relations invoking the real structure, namely projections can be real, quaternionic, even or odd Lagrangian and unitaries can be real, quaternionic, symmetric or anti-symmetric. There are $64$ such real index pairings of real $K$-theory with real $K$-homology. For $16$ of them, the Noether index of the pairing vanishes, but there is a secondary $mathbb{Z}_2$-valued invariant. The first set of results provides index formulas expressing each of these $16$ $mathbb{Z}_2$-valued pairings as either an orientation flow or a half-spectral flow. The second and main set of results constructs the skew localizer for a pairing stemming from a Fredholm module and shows that the $mathbb{Z}_2$-invariant can be computed as the sign of its Pfaffian and in $8$ of the cases as the sign of the determinant of its off-diagonal entry. This is of relevance for the numerical computation of invariants of topological insulators.
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