Noncommutative Residue and Dirac operators for Manifolds with the Conformal Robertson-Walker metric

TL;DR

This paper establishes a link between noncommutative residue calculations and gravitational actions on manifolds with boundary, specifically for 4D and 6D spin manifolds with conformal Robertson-Walker metrics, extending previous theorems.

Contribution

It proves a Kastler-Kalau-Walze type theorem for specific manifolds with boundary and provides operator theoretic explanations for gravitational actions in these contexts.

Findings

Noncommutative residue relates to Einstein-Hilbert action in 6D cases.

Two operator theoretic methods explain gravitational boundary actions.

Results extend known theorems to conformal Robertson-Walker metrics.

Abstract

In this paper, we prove a Kastler-Kalau-Walze type theorem for 4-dimensional and 6-dimensional spin manifolds with boundary associated with the conformal Robertson-Walker metric. And we give two kinds of operator theoretic explanations of the gravitational action for boundary in the case of 4-dimensional manifolds with flat boundary. In particular, for 6-dimensional spin manifolds with boundary with the conformal Robertson-Walker metric, we obtain the noncommutative residue of the composition of $\pi^+D^{-1}$ and $\pi^+D^{-3}$ is proportional to the Einstein-Hilbert action for manifolds with boundary.