Charles Epstein

Abstract:   We show that the d-bar Neumann condition, suitably modified, defines a boundary condition for the Spin_C Dirac operator, which satisfies the classical 1/2-estimates. The index of the chiral form of this operator satisfies gluing formulae leading, inter alia, to gluing formulae for holomorphic Euler characteristics, a formula for relative indices of Szego projectors, the proof of a conjecture of Atiyah and Weinstein, and a new proof of the Atiyah-Singer index theorem.

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