TY - INPR A1 - Savin, Anton A1 - Sternin, Boris T1 - Eta-invariant and Pontrjagin duality in K-theory N2 - The topological significance of the spectral Atiyah-Patodi-Singer η-invariant is investigated. We show that twice the fractional part of the invariant is computed by the linking pairing in K-theory with the orientation bundle of the manifold. The Pontrjagin duality implies the nondegeneracy of the linking form. An example of a nontrivial fractional part for an even-order operator is presented. T3 - Preprint - (2000) 08 KW - eta-invariant KW - K-theory KW - Pontrjagin duality KW - linking coefficients KW - Atiyah-Patodi-Singer theory KW - modulo n index Y1 - 2008 UR - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2365 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-25747 ER -