TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bär, Christian
A1  - Strohmaier, Alexander
T1  - An index theorem for Lorentzian manifolds with compact
spacelike Cauchy boundary
JF  - American Journal of Mathematics
N2  - We show that the Dirac operator on a compact globally hyperbolic Lorentzian spacetime with spacelike Cauchy boundary is a Fredholm operator if appropriate boundary conditions are imposed. We prove that the index of this operator is given by the same expression as in the index formula of Atiyah-Patodi-Singer for Riemannian manifolds with boundary. The index is also shown to equal that of a certain operator constructed from the evolution operator and a spectral projection on the boundary. In case the metric is of product type near the boundary a Feynman parametrix is constructed.
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1353/ajm.2019.0037
SN  - 0002-9327
SN  - 1080-6377
VL  - 141
IS  - 5
SP  - 1421
EP  - 1455
PB  - Johns Hopkins Univ. Press
CY  - Baltimore
ER  -