- Research Article
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- 10.1090/s0273-0979-1986-15482-0
The trace formula for vector bundles
- Jan 01, 1986
- Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society
- V Guillemin + 1 more +1
(II) fedN(X) = ^ e ± i ^ i J k is a tempered distributional function of t. The classical trace formula says that the singular support of (II) is contained in the length spectrum of X. Moreover, under suitable hypotheses on geodesic flow, the trace formula gives considerable information about the singularities in (II). (See [DG and C].) There is a fairly straightforward (and not terribly interesting) generalization of the trace formula to vector bundles. (See, for instance, the introduction to [DG].) We will be concerned in this article with a much more subtle generalization inspired by recent articles of Hogreve, Potthoff, and Schrader [HPS], and Schrader and Taylor [ST] in Communications in Mathematical Physics. Let G be a compact Lie group and ir: P —> X a principle G-bundle with connection. Given a finite-dimensional unitary representation, p, of G we will denote by Ep the vector bundle over X associated with p and by Dp the associated connection. Now consider a ladder {pe, e = 1,2,...} of irreducible representations of G. (This means that the maximal weight of pe is e times the maximal weight of p\.) For given e let Afc,e? # = 1, 2, O, . . . be the spectrum of the Laplace operator on C(Epe): Ae = D*peDpe + e .
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