Elliptic Operators, Topology, and Asymptotic Methods (Hardcover, 2 ed)

Chapter 1. Resume of Riemannian geometry, Chapter 2. Connections, curvature, and characteristic classes, Chapter 3. Clifford algebras and Dirac operators, Chapter 4. The Spin groups, Chapter 5. Analytic properties of Dirac operators, Chapter 6. Hodge theory, Chapter 7. The heat and wave equations, Chapter 8. Traces and eigenvalue asymptotics, Chapter 9. Some non-compact manifolds, Chapter 10. The Lefschetz formula, Chapter 11. The index problem, Chapter 12. The Getzler calculus and the local index theorem, Chapter 13. Applications of the index theorem, Chapter 14. Witten’s approach to Morse theory, Chapter 15. Atiyah’s T-index theorem, References