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This book offers a systematic and comprehensive presentation of
the concepts of a spin manifold, spinor fields, Dirac operators,
and A-genera, which, over the last two decades, have come to play a
significant role in many areas of modern mathematics. Since the
deeper applications of these ideas require various general forms of
the Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem, the theorems and their proofs,
together with all prerequisite material, are examined here in
detail. The exposition is richly embroidered with examples and
applications to a wide spectrum of problems in differential
geometry, topology, and mathematical physics. The authors
consistently use Clifford algebras and their representations in
this exposition. Clifford multiplication and Dirac operator
identities are even used in place of the standard tensor calculus.
This unique approach unifies all the standard elliptic operators in
geometry and brings fresh insights into curvature calculations. The
fundamental relationships of Clifford modules to such topics as the
theory of Lie groups, K-theory, KR-theory, and Bott Periodicity
also receive careful consideration. A special feature of this book
is the development of the theory of Cl-linear elliptic operators
and the associated index theorem, which connects certain subtle
spin-corbordism invariants to classical questions in geometry and
has led to some of the most profound relations known between the
curvature and topology of manifolds.
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