Fredholm $\Delta$-Filtration of Fredholm Groups

Abstract

In this short note, we show that some well-known filtrations of infinite dimensional groups of Fredholm operators associated to certain perturbation classes are, in fact, Fredholm $\Delta$-filtrations (see Definition 5 below.) For example, let $\E$ be a separable infinite dimensional real Hilbert space. The group $\GLK(\E)$ of all invertible operators on $\E$ which are compact perturbations of the identity is the structure group for Hilbert Fredholm manifolds and bundles modeled on $\E$ \cite{ElwTr, Ksch, Mkhr}. Using an orthonormal basis, there are canonical inclusions of general linear groups: $$\GL(1) \subset \cdots \subset \GL(n) \subset \GL(n+1) \subset \cdots \subset \GL(\infty) = \varinjlim \GL(n) \subset \GLK(\E).$$ We show this is a Fredholm $\Delta$-filtration of the Fredholm manifold $\GLK(\E)$ with dimension sequence $\Delta(n) = \dim(\GL(n)) = n^2$, which was not discussed in the classical Fredholm manifold literature because of the rigid constraint that the dimensions of a filtration increase only by one.