Bordism Invariance of the Coarse Index
Abstract
We prove bordism invariance of the coarse index of complex elliptic pseudodifferential operators. In our discussion we introduce directed c-bordisms, whose usefulness is illustrated in the context of existence of uniformly positive scalar curvature metrics on open manifolds.
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