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A Remark on Surgery in Index Theory of Elliptic Operators

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We suggest a general version of the relative index formula related to surgery and apply it to obtain index formulas for elliptic pseudodifferential operators and Fourier integral operators on manifolds with conical singularities.

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Nazaikinskii, V.E., Sternin, B.Y. (2003). A Remark on Surgery in Index Theory of Elliptic Operators. In: de Gosson, M. (eds) Jean Leray ’99 Conference Proceedings. Mathematical Physics Studies, vol 24. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2008-3_24

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