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In this paper, we obtain two Lichnerowicz type formulas for the generalized Zhang’s operator. And we give the proof of the Kastler–Kalau–Walze type theorem for the generalized Zhang’s operator on 4-dimensional oriented compact manifolds with (respectively, without) boundary.
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1. Introduction
The noncommutative residue found in [6, 15] plays a prominent role in noncommutative geometry. For arbitrary closed compact \(n\)-dimensional manifolds, the noncommutative residue was introduced by Wodzicki in [15] using the theory of zeta functions of elliptic pseudo-differential operators. In [2], Connes used the noncommutative residue to derive a conformal 4-dimensional Polyakov action analog. Furthermore, Connes made a challenging observation that the noncommutative residue of the square of the inverse of the Dirac operator was proportional to the Einstein–Hilbert action in [3]. Let \(s\) be the scalar curvature and Wres denote the noncommutative residue. Then Kastler–Kalau–Walze type theorems give an operator-theoretic explanation of the gravitational action and say that for a \(4\)–dimensional closed spin manifold, there exists a constant \(c_0\) such that
In [8], Kastler gave a brute-force proof of this theorem. In [7], Kalau and Walze proved this theorem in the normal coordinates system simultaneously. And then, Ackermann proved that the Wodzicki residue \({\rm Wres}(D^{-2})\) in turn is essentially the second coefficient of the heat kernel expansion of \(D^{2}\) in [1].
On the other hand, Wang generalized the Connes’ results to the case of manifolds with boundary in [11, 12], and proved the Kastler–Kalau–Walze type theorem for the Dirac operator and the signature operator on lower-dimensional manifolds with boundary [13]. In [13, 14], Wang computed \(\widetilde{{\rm Wres}}[\pi^+D^{-1}\circ\pi^+D^{-1}]\) and \(\widetilde{{\rm Wres}}[\pi^+D^{-2}\circ\pi^+D^{-2}]\), where the two operators are symmetric, in these cases, the boundary term vanished. But for \(\widetilde{{\rm Wres}}[\pi^+D^{-1}\circ\pi^+D^{-3}]\), the authors got a nonvanishing boundary term [10], and gave a theoretical explanation for gravitational action on boundary. In others words, Wang provides a kind of method to study the Kastler–Kalau–Walze type theorem for manifolds with boundary.
In [18], Wu and Wang proved Kastler–Kalau–Walze type theorems for the operators \(\sqrt{-1}\widehat{c}(V)(d+\delta)\) and \(-\sqrt{-1}(d+\delta)\widehat{c}(V)\) on 3,4-dimensional oriented compact manifolds with (respectively, without) boundary. In Definition 2.1 and Proposition 2.2 of [17], Zhang defined a natural operator \(D_V=\widehat{c}(V)(d+\delta)-\frac{1}{2}\sum_ic(e_i)\widehat{c}(\nabla_{e_i}^{TM}V),\) where \(|V|=1\). This operator plays a very important role in unifying the Gauss–Bonnet–Chern theorem and the Hirzebruch-signature theorem. The motivation of this paper is to prove the Kastler–Kalau–Walze type theorem associated with the operators \(\sqrt{-1}\Big(\widehat{c}(V)(d+\delta) +t\sum_ic(e_i)\widehat{c}(\nabla_{e_i}^{TM}V)\Big)\) and \(-\sqrt{-1}\Big((d+\delta)\widehat{c}(V) +\bar{t}\sum_ic(e_i)\widehat{c}(\nabla_{e_i}^{TM}V)\Big)\), which we call the generalized Zhang’s operator for 4 - dimensional manifolds with (respectively, without) boundary. Because we need to take \(\widetilde{D}_V^{-1}\), it follows that \(\widetilde{D}_V\) must be an elliptic operator. \(\widetilde{D}_V=\sqrt{-1}\Big(\widehat{c}(V)(d+\delta) +t\sum_ic(e_i)\widehat{c}(\nabla_{e_i}^{TM}V)\Big)\), so \(\widehat{c}(V)\) is an elliptic operator, and \(V\) cannot have zero points. Therefore, we assume that \(V\) is a nowhere zero vector field. In this paper, we obtain two Lichnerowicz type formulas for the generalized Zhang’s operator, and for a nowhere zero vector field, we prove the following main theorems.
Theorem 1.1.
Let \(M\) be a \(4\)-dimensional oriented compact manifold with the boundary \(\partial M\) and let the metric \(g^{TM}\) be as in Section 3, the operators \({\widetilde{D}_V}=\sqrt{-1}\Big(\widehat{c}(V)(d +\delta)+t\sum_ic(e_i)\widehat{c}(\nabla_{e_i}^{TM}V)\Big)\) and let \({\widetilde{D}_V}^*=-\sqrt{-1}\Big((d+\delta)\widehat{c}(V) +\bar{t}\sum_ic(e_i)\widehat{c}(\nabla_{e_i}^{TM}V)\Big)\) be on \(\widetilde{M}\) \((\widetilde{M}\) is a collar neighborhood of \(M);\) then
where \(s\) is the scalar curvature, \(h\) is defined by (62), and \({\rm \Omega_{3}}\) is the canonical volume of \(S^{2}\).
Theorem 1.2.
Let \(M\) be a \(4\)-dimensional oriented compact manifold with the boundary \(\partial M\) and the metric \(g^{TM}\) as in Section 3, and let the operator \({\widetilde{D}_V}=\sqrt{-1}\Big(\widehat{c}(V)(d+\delta) +t\sum_ic(e_i)\widehat{c}(\nabla_{e_i}^{TM}V)\Big)\) be on \(\widetilde{M}\) \((\widetilde{M}\) is a collar neighborhood of \(M);\) then
where \(s\) is the scalar curvature, \(h\) is defined by (62), and \({\rm \Omega_{3}}\) is the canonical volume of \(S^{2}\).
We note that two operators in Theorem 1.1 are symmetric, but we still get the nonvanishing boundary term. The paper is organized in the following way. In Section 2, by using the definition of the generalized Zhang’s operator, we compute the Lichnerowicz formulas for the generalized Zhang’s operator. In Section 3, we prove the Kastler–Kalau–Walze type theorem for 4-dimensional manifolds with (respectively, without) boundary associated with the generalized Zhang’s operator.
2. The Generalized Zhang’s Operator and Their Lichnerowicz Formulas
Firstly, we introduce some notation about the operators \(\sqrt{-1}\Big(\widehat{c}(V)(d+\delta) +t\sum_ic(e_i)\widehat{c}(\nabla_{e_i}^{TM}V)\Big)\) and \(-\sqrt{-1}\Big((d+\delta)\widehat{c}(V) +\bar{t}\sum_ic(e_i)\widehat{c}(\nabla_{e_i}^{TM}V)\Big)\). Let \(M\) be an \(n\)-dimensional (\(n\geq 3\)) oriented compact Riemannian manifold with a Riemannian metric \(g^{TM}\).
Let \(\nabla^L\) be the Levi-Civita connection about \(g^{TM}\). In the fixed orthonormal frame \(\{e_1,...,e_n\}\), the connection matrix \((\omega_{s,t})\) is defined by
Let \(\epsilon (e_j^*)\), \(\iota (e_j^*)\) be the exterior and interior multiplications, respectively, where \(e_j^*=g^{TM}(e_j,\cdot)\). And let \(c(e_j)\) be the Clifford action. Write
which satisfies
By [16], we have
Let \(e_1,e_2,...,e_n\) be the orthonormal basis of \(TM\), the operators \({\widetilde{D}}_V\) and \({\widetilde{D}_V}^*\) acting on \(\wedge^*T^*M\otimes\mathbb{C}\) are defined by
where \(t\) is a complex number and \(V\) is a nowhere zero vector field on \(M\).
Set \(A=\sum_ic(e_i)\widehat{c}(\nabla_{e_i}^{TM}V)\), so we can get the following theorem about the Lichnerowicz formulas.
Theorem 2.1.
The following equalities hold:
where \(s\) is the scalar curvature.
Proof. Let \(M\) be an \(n\)-dimensional smooth compact oriented Riemannian manifold without boundary and \(N\) be a vector bundle on \(M\). If \(P\) is a differential operator of Laplace type, then it has locally the form
where \(\partial_{i}\) is a natural local frame on \(TM\) and \((g^{ij})_{1\leq i,j\leq n}\) is the inverse matrix associated to the metric matrix \((g_{ij})_{1\leq i,j\leq n}\) on \(M\), and \(A^{i}\) and \(B\) are smooth sections of \(\text{End}(N)\) on \(M\) (endomorphism). If a Laplace type operator \(P\) satisfies (11), then there is a unique connection \(\nabla\) on \(N\) and a unique endomorphism \(E\) such that
where \(\nabla^{L}\) is the Levi-Civita connection on \(M\). Moreover (with local frames of \(T^{*}M\) and \(N\)), \(\nabla_{\partial_{i}} =\partial_{i}+\omega_{i} \) and \(E\) are related to \(g^{ij}\), \(A^{i}\), and \(B\) through
where \(\Gamma_{ kl}^{j}\) is the Christoffel coefficient of \(\nabla^{L}\). Let \(g^{ij}=g(dx_{i},dx_{j})\), \(\xi=\sum_{j}\xi_{j}dx_{j}\) and \(\nabla^L_{\partial_{i}}\partial_{j}=\sum_{k}\Gamma_{ij}^{k}\partial_{k}\); we write
Then the operators \(\widetilde{D}_V\) and \({\widetilde{D}_V}^*\) can be written as
where
So, \(F^*\) is a generalized Laplacian.
Similarly, by \(d+\delta=\sum_{q=1}^nc(e_q)\nabla^{\wedge^*T^*M}_{e_q}\), we get
Since \(E\) is globally defined on \(M\), it follows that, taking normal coordinates at \(x_0\), we have \(\sigma^{i}(x_0)=0\), \(a^{i}(x_0)=0\), \(\partial^{j}[c(\partial_{j})](x_0)=0\), \(\Gamma^k(x_0)=0\), \(g^{ij}(x_0)=\delta^j_i\), and then
Similarly, we have
Hence, by (12), (25), and (26), we get Theorem 2.1.
Corollary 2.2.
When \(|V|=1,\) the equalities in Theorem 2.1 become
where \(s\) is the scalar curvature.
From [1], we know that the noncommutative residue of a generalized Laplacian \(\overline{\Delta}\) is expressed as
where \(\Phi_{2}(\overline{\Delta})\) denotes the integral over the diagonal part of the second coefficient of the heat kernel expansion of \(\overline{\Delta}\). Now let \(\overline{\Delta}={\widetilde{D}_V}^*{\widetilde{D}_V}\), since \({\widetilde{D}_V}^*{\widetilde{D}_V}\) is a generalized Laplacian, and \({\widetilde{D}_V}^*{\widetilde{D}_V}=\overline{\Delta} -E_{{\widetilde{D}_V}^*\widetilde{D}_V}\), then, for \(n=4\), we have (see [5])
where \({\rm Wres}\) denotes the noncommutative residue.
Next, we need to compute \({\rm tr}(\frac{1}{6}s+E_{F^*})\) and \({\rm tr}(\frac{1}{6}s+E_F)\). Obviously, we get
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4) By \(|V|^2=\sum_{i=1}^ng^{TM}(e_i,V)^2,\) we have \(\sum_{i=1}^n\big(g^{TM}(e_i,{\rm grad}|V|^2)\big)^2=|{\rm grad}|V|^2|^2,\) so
(5) By \(\widehat{c}(V)\widehat{c}(\nabla^L_{e_r}V) +\widehat{c}(\nabla^L_{e_r}V)\widehat{c}(V)=2g^{TM}(V,\nabla^L_{e_r}V)=e_r(|V|^2)\), we obtain
(5-a)
so
(5-b)
Therefore,
(6)
so
Then
(7) By \(\nabla^{\wedge^*T^*M}_{e_j}(c({\rm grad}|V|^2)) =c(\nabla^{TM}_{e_j}{\rm grad}|V|^2)\), we get
so
(8) By \(\nabla^{\wedge^*T^*M}_{e_j}(\alpha\beta) =(\nabla^{\wedge^*T^*M}_{e_j}\alpha)\beta+\alpha(\nabla^{\wedge^*T^*M}_{e_j}\beta),\) we get
(8-a) By \((\nabla^L_{e_j}e_q)(x_0)=0\), we get
(8-b)
so
(8-c)
so
Hence, by (44), (46), and (48), we have
(9) Similar to (8), we have
(9-a) Similar to (8-a), we get
(9-b)
so
Hence, by (50) and (52), we obtain
(10)
so
(11) By \(\widehat{c}(V)\widehat{c}(\nabla^{TM}_{e_i}V) +\widehat{c}(\nabla^{TM}_{e_i}V)\widehat{c}(V)=2g^{TM}(V,\nabla^{TM}_{e_i}V) =e_i(|V|^2)\), then
(12)
so
Therefore, we get
Then by (29) and (30), we have the following theorem and corollary.
Theorem 2.3.
If \(M\) is a \(4\)-dimensional compact oriented manifold without boundary, then we get the following equalities:
Corollary 2.4.
If \(M\) is an \(n\)-dimensional compact oriented manifold without boundary, and \(n\) is even, then when \(|V|=1,\) we get the following equalities:
3. The Kastler–Kalau–Walze type theorem for \(4\)-dimensional manifolds with boundary
In this section, we prove the Kastler–Kalau–Walze type theorem for \(4\)-dimensional oriented compact manifolds with boundary. We firstly recall some basic facts and formulas about Boutet de Monvel’s calculus and the definition of the noncommutative residue for manifolds with boundary which will be used in the following. For more details, see Section 2 in [13]. Let \(M\) be a 4-dimensional compact oriented manifold with the boundary \(\partial M\). We assume that the metric \(g^{TM}\) on \(M\) has the following form near the boundary:
where \(g^{\partial M}\) is the metric on \(\partial M\) and \(h(x_n)\in C^{\infty}([0, 1)) :=\{\widehat{h}|_{[0,1)}|\widehat{h}\in C^{\infty}((-\varepsilon,1))\}\) for some \(\varepsilon>0\) and \(h(x_n)\) satisfies \(h(x_n)>0\), \(h(0)=1,\) where \(x_n\) denotes the normal directional coordinate. Let \(U\subset M\) be a collar neighborhood of \(\partial M\) which is diffeomorphic with \(\partial M\times [0,1)\). By the definition of \(h(x_n)\in C^{\infty}([0,1))\) and \(h(x_n)>0\), there exists an \(\widehat{h}\in C^{\infty}((-\varepsilon,1))\) such that \(\widehat{h}|_{[0,1)}=h\) and \(\widehat{h}>0\) for some sufficiently small \(\varepsilon>0\). Then there exists a metric \(g'\) on \(\widetilde{M}=M\bigcup_{\partial M}\partial M\times (-\varepsilon,0]\) which has the following form on \(U\bigcup_{\partial M}\partial M\times (-\varepsilon,0 ]\):
such that \(g'|_{M}=g\). We fix a metric \(g'\) on the \(\widetilde{M}\) such that \(g'|_{M}=g\).
Let the Fourier transformation \(F'\) be
and let
We define \(H^+=F'(\Phi(\widetilde{{\bf R}^+})); H^-_0=F'(\Phi(\widetilde{{\bf R}^-}))\) which satisfies \(H^+\bot H^-_0\), where \(\Phi(\widetilde{{\bf R}^+}) =r^+\Phi({\bf R})\), \(\Phi(\widetilde{{\bf R}^-}) =r^-\Phi({\bf R})\) and \(\Phi({\bf R})\) denotes the Schwartz space. We have the following property: \(h\in H^+ \) (respectively, \(H^-_0\)) if and only if \(h\in C^\infty({\bf R})\) which has an analytic extension to the lower (respectively, upper) complex half-plane \(\{{\rm Im}\xi<0\}\) (respectively, \(\{{\rm Im}\xi>0\})\) such that, for all nonnegative integers \(l\),
as \(|\xi|\rightarrow +\infty,{\rm Im}\xi\leq0\) (respectively, \({\rm Im}\xi\geq0)\) and where \(c_k\in\mathbb{C}\) are some constants. Let \(H'\) be the space of all polynomials and \(H^-=H^-_0\bigoplus H'; H=H^+\bigoplus H^-.\) Denote by \(\pi^+\) (respectively, \(\pi^-\)) the projection on \(H^+\) (respectively, \(H^-\)). Let \(\widetilde H=\{\)rational functions having no poles on the real axis\(\}\). Then, on \(\widetilde{H}\),
where \(\Gamma^+\) is a Jordan closed curve included \({\rm Im}(\xi)>0\) surrounding all the singularities of \(h\) in the upper half-plane and \(\xi_0\in {\bf R}\). In our computations, we only compute \(\pi^+h\) for \(h\) in \(\widetilde{H}\). Similarly, define \(\pi'\) on \(\widetilde{H}\),
So \(\pi'(H^-)=0\). For \(h\in H\bigcap L^1({\bf R})\), \(\pi'h=\frac{1}{2\pi}\int_{{\bf R}}h(v)dv\) and, for \(h\in H^+\bigcap L^1({\bf R})\), \(\pi'h=0\). An operator of order \(m\in {\bf Z}\) and type \(d\) is a matrix
where \(M\) is a manifold with boundary \(\partial M\) and \(E_1,E_2\) (respectively, \(F_1,F_2\)) are vector bundles over \(M \) (respectively, \(\partial M \)). Here, \(P:C^{\infty}_0(\Omega,\overline {E_1})\rightarrow C^{\infty}(\Omega,\overline {E_2})\) is a classical pseudo-differential operator of order \(m\) on \(\Omega\), where \(\Omega\) is a collar neighborhood of \(M\) and \(\overline{E_i}|M=E_i (i=1,2)\). \(P\) has an extension: \( {\cal{E'}}(\Omega,\overline {E_1})\rightarrow {\cal{D'}}(\Omega,\overline {E_2})\), where \({\cal{E'}}(\Omega,\overline {E_1}) ({\cal{D'}}(\Omega,\overline {E_2}))\) is the dual space of \(C^{\infty}(\Omega,\overline {E_1}) (C^{\infty}_0(\Omega,\overline {E_2}))\). Let \(e^+:C^{\infty}(M,{E_1})\rightarrow{\cal{E'}}(\Omega,\overline {E_1})\) denote extension by zero from \(M\) to \(\Omega\) and \(r^+:{\cal{D'}}(\Omega,\overline{E_2})\rightarrow {\cal{D'}}(\Omega, {E_2})\) denote the restriction from \(\Omega\) to \(X\), then define
In addition, \(P\) is supposed to have the transmission property; this means that, for all \(j,k,\alpha\), the homogeneous component \(p_j\) of order \(j\) in the asymptotic expansion of the symbol \(p\) of \(P\) in local coordinates near the boundary satisfies:
then \(\pi^+P:C^{\infty}(M,{E_1})\rightarrow C^{\infty}(M,{E_2})\) by [11]. Let \(G\), \(T\) be, respectively, the singular Green operator and the trace operator of order \(m\) and type \(d\). Let \(K\) be a potential operator and \(S\) be a classical pseudo-differential operator of order \(m\) along the boundary. Denote by \(B^{m,d}\) the collection of all operators of order \(m\) and type \(d\), and let \(\mathcal{B}\) be the union over all \(m\) and \(d\). Recall that \(B^{m,d}\) is a Fréchet space. The composition of the above operator matrices yields a continuous mapping: \(B^{m,d}\times B^{m',d'}\rightarrow B^{m+m',{\rm max}\{ m'+d,d'\}}.\) Write
The composition \(\widetilde{A}\widetilde{A}'\) is obtained by multiplication of the matrices (for more details, see [9]). For example, \(\pi^+P\circ G'\) and \(G\circ G'\) are singular Green operators of type \(d'\) and
Here \(PP'\) is the usual composition of pseudo-differential operators and \(L(P,P')\), called thr leftover term, is a singular Green operator of type \(m'+d\). For our case, \(P,P'\) are classical pseudo-differential operators, in other words, \(\pi^+P\in \mathcal{B}^{\infty}\) and \(\pi^+P'\in \mathcal{B}^{\infty}\). Let \(M\) be an \(n\)-dimensional compact oriented manifold with the boundary \(\partial M\). Denote by \(\mathcal{B}\) the Boutet de Monvel’s algebra. We recall the main theorem and the definition in [4, 13].
Theorem 3.1.
(Fedosov–Golse–Leichtnam–Schrohe)[4] Let \(X\) and \(\partial X\) be connected, \({\rm dim}M=n\geq3,\) and let \(\widetilde{S}\) \((\)respectively, \(\widetilde{S}')\) be the unit sphere about \(\xi\) \((\)respectively, \(\xi')\) and \(\sigma(\xi)\) \((\)respectively, \(\sigma(\xi'))\) be the corresponding canonical \(n-1\) \((\)respectively, \((n-2))\) volume form. Set \(\widetilde{A}=\left(\begin{array}{lcr}\pi^+P+G & K \\ T & \widetilde{S} \end{array}\right)\) \(\in \mathcal{B}\), and denote by \(p\), \(b\), and \(s\) the local symbols of \(P,G\) and \(\widetilde{S}\), respectively. Define\(:\)
where \({\rm{\widetilde{Wres}}}\) denotes the noncommutative residue of an operator in the Boutet de Monvel’s algebra. Then \(({\rm a})\) \({\rm \widetilde{Wres}}([\widetilde{A},B])=0,\) for any \(\widetilde{A},B\in\mathcal{B}\); \(({\rm b})\) This is a unique continuous trace on \(\mathcal{B}/\mathcal{B}^{-\infty}\).
Definition 3.2.
[13] The lower-dimensional volumes of spin manifolds with boundary are defined by
By [13], we get
and
where the sum is taken over \(r+l-k-|\alpha|-j-1=-n, r\leq -p_1,l\leq -p_2\).
For any fixed point \(x_0\in\partial M\), we choose the normal coordinates \(U\) of \(x_0\) in \(\partial M\) (not in \(M\)) and compute \(\Phi(x_0)\) in the coordinates \(\widetilde{U}=U\times [0,1)\subset M\) and the metric \(\frac{1}{h(x_n)}g^{\partial M}+dx_n^2.\) The dual metric of \(g^{TM}\) on \(\widetilde{U}\) is \({h(x_n)}g^{\partial M}+dx_n^2.\) Write \(g^{TM}_{ij}=g^{TM}(\frac{\partial}{\partial x_i}, \frac{\partial}{\partial x_j}); g_{TM}^{ij}=g^{TM}(dx_i,dx_j)\), then
and
From [13], we can get the following three lemmas.
Lemma 3.3.
[13]. With the metric \(g^{TM}\) on \(M\) near the boundary
where \(\xi=\xi'+\xi_{n}dx_{n}\).
Lemma 3.4.
[13]. With the metric \(g^{TM}\) on \(M\) near the boundary
where \((\omega_{s,t})\) denotes the connection matrix of Levi-Civita connection \(\nabla^L\).
Lemma 3.5.
[13]. When \(i<n,\) we have
in other cases, \(\Gamma_{st}^i(x_0)=0\).
By (68) and (69), we firstly compute
where
and the sum is taken over \(r+l-k-j-|\alpha|=-3, r\leq -1,l\leq-1\).
Since \([\sigma_{-n}(D^{-p_1-p_2})]|_M\) has the same expression as \(\sigma_{-n}(D^{-p_1-p_2})\) in the case of manifolds without boundary, so locally we can compute the interior of \(\widetilde{{\rm Wres}}[\pi^+{\widetilde{D}_V}^{-1}\circ\pi^+({\widetilde{D}_V}^*)^{-1}]\) by Theorem 2.3; then we have
Also, we have the following lemmas.
Lemma 3.6.
The following identities hold:
Write
By the composition formula of pseudo-differential operators, we have
so
Lemma 3.7.
The following identities hold:
Now we need to compute \(\int_{\partial M} \Psi\). When \(n=4\), we have \({\rm tr}_{\wedge^*T^*M\otimes\mathbb{C}}[{\rm \texttt{id}}]=2^n=16\), and the sum is taken over \( r+l-k-j-|\alpha|=-3, r\leq -1, l\leq-1;\) then we have the following five cases.
Case (a-I). \(r=-1, l=-1, k=j=0, |\alpha|=1\).
By (77), we get
By Lemma 3.3, for \(i<n\),
where \(\widehat{c}(V)=\sum_{l=1}^nV_l\widehat{c}(e_l), V_l=g^{TM}(V,e_l).\) Then
By \(c(\xi)=\sum_{j=1}^n\xi_jc(dx_j), |\xi|^2=\sum_{ij}g^{ij}\xi_i\xi_j\), for \(i<n\),
Then
By the relation of the Clifford action and \({\rm tr}(AB)={\rm tr }(BA)\), we have the following equalities:
We note that \(i<n, \int_{|\xi'|=1}\{\xi_{i_{1}}\xi_{i_{2}}\cdots\xi_{i_{2q+1}}\}\sigma(\xi')=0\), so we omit some items that have no contribution for computing \(\Psi_1\). So
Case (a-II). \(r=-1, l=-1, k=|\alpha|=0, j=1\).
By (77), we get
By Lemma 3.7, we have
and
By integrating the formula, we obtain
Similarly, we have
and
Then
By the relation of the Clifford action and \({\rm tr}(AB)={\rm tr }(BA)\) and by \(\partial_{x_n}(V_l)V_l=\frac{1}{2}\partial_{x_n}(|V|^2)\), we have the following equalities:
By (93), (98), and (99), we have
Therefore, we get
where \({\rm \Omega_{3}}\) is the canonical volume of \(S^{2}.\)
Case (a-III). \(r=-1, l=-1, j=|\alpha|=0, k=1\).
By (77), we get
By Lemma 3.7, we have
and
By (99), (105), and (106), we have
Therefore,
Case (a-IV). \(r=-2, l=-1, k=j=|\alpha|=0\).
By (77), we get
By Lemma 3.7, we have
where
We denote
where \(b_0^{2}=c_0c(dx_n)\) and \(c_0=-\frac{3}{4}h'(0)\). Then
By computations, we have
Since
it follows that by the relation of the Clifford action and \({\rm tr}{(AB)} ={\rm tr }{(BA)}\), we have the following equalities:
Since
We note that \(i<n, \int_{|\xi'|=1}\{\xi_{i_{1}}\xi_{i_{2}}\cdots \xi_{i_{2q+1}}\}\sigma(\xi')=0\), so \({\rm tr }[c(\xi')b_0^{1}(x_0)]\) has no contribution for computing \(\Psi_4\).
By computations, we have
where
and
By the relation of the Clifford action and \({\rm tr}{(AB)}={\rm tr }{(BA)}\), we have the following equalities:
and
Moreover,
By (117), (122), and (125), we have
Similarly, \({\rm tr}[A\widehat{c}(V)c(\xi')]\) has no contribution for computing \(\Psi_4\). Therefore,
Case (a-V). \(r=-1, l=-2, k=j=|\alpha|=0\).
By (77), we get
By integrating formula and Lemma 3.7, we have
Since
where
Then
An easy calculation gives
and
Also, straightforward computations yield
and
By the relation of the Clifford action and \({\rm tr}{(AB)}={\rm tr }{(BA)}\), we have the following equalities:
We note that \(i<n, \int_{|\xi'|=1}\{\xi_{i_{1}}\xi_{i_{2}}\cdots\xi_{i_{2q+1}}\} \sigma(\xi')=0\), so we omit some items that have no contribution for computing \(\Psi_5\). Therefore,
Now \(\Psi\) is the sum of the \(\Psi_{(1,2,...,5)}\). Combining with the five cases, this yields
So, by (78) and (143), we are reduced to prove the following theorem.
Theorem 3.8.
Let \(M\) be a \(4\)-dimensional oriented compact manifold with the boundary \(\partial M\) and let the metric \(g^{TM}\) be as in Section 3, the operators \({\widetilde{D}_V}=\sqrt{-1}\Big(\widehat{c}(V)(d+\delta)+t\sum_ic(e_i) \widehat{c}(\nabla_{e_i}^{TM}V)\Big)\) and \({\widetilde{D}_V}^*=-\sqrt{-1}\Big((d+\delta)\widehat{c}(V)+\bar{t}\sum_ic(e_i) \widehat{c}(\nabla_{e_i}^{TM}V)\Big)\) be on \(\widetilde{M}\) \((\widetilde{M}\) is a collar neighborhood of \(M);\) then
Next, we also prove the Kastler–Kalau–Walze type theorem for \(4\)-dimensional manifolds with boundary associated to \({\widetilde{D}_V}^2\). By (68) and (69), we shall compute
where
and the sum is taken over \(r+l-k-j-|\alpha|=-3, r\leq -1,l\leq-1\).
Similarly, by Theorem 2.3, we compute the interior of \(\widetilde{{\rm Wres}}[\pi^+{\widetilde{D}_V}^{-1}\circ\pi^+{\widetilde{D}_V}^{-1}]\), then
Now we need to compute \(\int_{\partial M} \widetilde{\Psi}\). When \(n=4\), by Lemma 3.7, \(\sigma_{-1}({\widetilde{D}_V}^{-1}) =\sigma_{-1}(({\widetilde{D}_V}^*)^{-1})\), and then we have the following five cases:
Case (b-I). \(r=-1, l=-1, k=j=0, |\alpha|=1\).
Case (b-II). \(r=-1, l=-1, k=|\alpha|=0, j=1\).
Case (b-III). \(r=-1, l=-1, j=|\alpha|=0, k=1\).
Case (b-IV). \(r=-2, l=-1, k=j=|\alpha|=0\).
Case (b-V). \(r=-1, l=-2, k=j=|\alpha|=0\).
By (146), we get
By computations, we have
Since
where
Then
Similarly, an easy calculation gives
Now \(\widetilde{\Psi}\) is the sum of the \(\widetilde{\Psi}_{(1,2,...,5)}\). Combining with the five cases, this yields
So, by (147) and (158), we are reduced to prove the following theorem.
Theorem 3.9.
Let \(M\) be a \(4\)-dimensional oriented compact manifold with the boundary \(\partial M\) and the metric \(g^{TM}\) as in Section 3, the operator \({\widetilde{D}_V}=\sqrt{-1}\Big(\widehat{c}(V)(d+\delta) +t\sum_ic(e_i)\widehat{c}(\nabla_{e_i}^{TM}V)\Big)\) be on \(\widetilde{M}\) (\(\widetilde{M}\) is a collar neighborhood of \(M\))\(,\) then
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Li, H., Wang, Y. & Yang, Y. The Generalized Zhang’s Operator and Kastler–Kalau–Walze Type Theorems. Russ. J. Math. Phys. 31, 227–254 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1061920824020080
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