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A new index formula of Atiyah Singer type for scattering operators is proved. The index corresponds to the vacuum polarization of the Fermion (on the Minkowski space) coupled to an external non abelian gauge field.
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Matsui, T. The index of scattering operators of Dirac equations. Commun.Math. Phys. 110, 553–571 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01205548
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