id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 8s45q813k6n Steven Edward Broad Index formulas for higher order Loewner vector fields 2010 .txt text/plain 209 8 54 Structurally, our index formula provides a defect term for Loewner's conjecture containing geometric data extracted from Hessian-like objects associated with higher order derivatives of f. In particular, our index formula computes the Fredholm index of the Toeplitz operator on the unit circle whose symbol is the nth order Cauchy-Riemann derivative of f. Recent work of F. Xavier produced a formula for computing the index of such vector fields in the case n = 2 using data about the Hessian of f. cache/8s45q813k6n.txt txt/8s45q813k6n.txt