A general splitting formula for the spectral flow. With an appendix by K. P. Wojciechowski (Q1591611)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1548329
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A general splitting formula for the spectral flow. With an appendix by K. P. Wojciechowski
scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1548329

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    A general splitting formula for the spectral flow. With an appendix by K. P. Wojciechowski (English)
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    1 January 2001
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    The authors prove a general splitting theorem and show how it can be used to derive most of the various splitting theorems from the literature. Their proof is quite simple and uses only some elementary properties of the Maslov index and three results due to Nicolaescu.
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    spectral flow
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    Dirac operators
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    splitting theorems
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