Index theorem for homogeneous spaces of Lie groups

Abstract

We study index theory for homogeneous spaces associated to an almost connected Lie group in terms of the topological and analytic aspects. For the topological aspect, we obtain a topological formula as a result of the Riemann–Roch formula for proper cocompact actions of the Lie group, inspired by the work of Paradan and Vergne. For the analytic aspect, we apply heat kernel methods to obtain a local index formula representing the higher indices of equivariant elliptic operators with respect to a proper, cocompact action of the Lie group.