2006/11/08 by Alan L. Carey, John Phillips, Carey, Alan L. +5
Mathematics · #Advanced Operator Algebra Research #Advanced Topics in Algebra #FOS: Mathematics #Holomorphic and Operator Theory #K-Theory and Homology (math.KT) #Operator Algebras (math.OA) #math.KT #math.OA
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.math/0611227
46 pages
arxiv created 2006/11/08 · openalex publication_date 2006/11/08 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In previous work we generalised both the odd and even local index formula of Connes and Moscovici to the case of spectral triples for a *-subalgebra \A of a general semifinite von Neumann algebra. Our proofs are novel even in the setting of the original theorem and rely on the introduction of a function valued cocycle (called the resolvent cocycle) which is `almost' a (b,B)-cocycle in the cyclic cohomology of \A. In this paper we show that this resolvent cocycle `almost' represents the Chern character, and assuming analytic continuation properties for zeta functions, we show that the associated residue cocycle, which appears in our statement of the local index theorem does represent the Chern character.