Elliptic Theory on Manifolds with Corners: II. Homotopy classification and $K$-Homology

Abstract

We establish the stable homotopy classification of elliptic pseudodifferential operators on manifolds with corners and show that the set of elliptic operators modulo stable homotopy is isomorphic to the K-homology group of some stratified manifold. By way of application, generalizations of some recent results due to Monthubert and Nistor are given.

17 pages, 1 figure. Submitted to the proceedings of the Conference "C*-algebras and elliptic theory. II" (Banach Center, Bedlewo, Poland, January 23--28, 2006)