{"title":"The Index Theorem for Toeplitz Operators as a Corollary of Bott Periodicity","authors":"Paul F Baum;Erik Van Erp","doi":"10.1093/qmath/haab008","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This is an expository paper about the index of Toeplitz operators, and in particular Boutet de Monvel’s theorem [5]. We prove Boutet de Monvel’s theorem as a corollary of Bott periodicity, and independently of the Atiyah-Singer index theorem.","PeriodicalId":54522,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Mathematics","volume":"72 1-2","pages":"547-569"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6000,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Quarterly Journal of Mathematics","FirstCategoryId":"100","ListUrlMain":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9519180/","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"MATHEMATICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This is an expository paper about the index of Toeplitz operators, and in particular Boutet de Monvel’s theorem [5]. We prove Boutet de Monvel’s theorem as a corollary of Bott periodicity, and independently of the Atiyah-Singer index theorem.
期刊介绍:
The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics publishes original contributions to pure mathematics. All major areas of pure mathematics are represented on the editorial board.