Higher ETA Invariants and the Novikov Conjecture on Manifolds with Boundary II

摘要

Contents: Introduction; Riemannian fibration, signature operators and symmetric spectral sections; z(sub k)-Galois covering and higher eta forms; Manifolds with boundary and higher signatures; On the homotopy invariance of the canonical index class; Noncommutative symmetric spectral sections; Higher eta invariants and higher p-invariants for signature operators; The absolute Novikov conjecture on manifolds with boundary; The gap case; Futher Remarks.