I would like you to tell me about the best introduction book for spin geometry, in particular, the following topics:
- Clifford Algebras from the foundation to the classification and their representations.
- Dirac operator and spinor.
- Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem, heat kernel and its application to topology and physics.
Once, I consider about "Spin Geometry" by Lawson and Michelsohn, but my knowledge is
- Geometric topology(homotopy group, (co)homology and K-theory).
- Differential geometry(Riemannian geometry, de-Rham theory and Hodge theory).
- Representations for Lie algebras and Lie groups.
- Functional analysis.
However I have not learned characteristic classes. To read the book of Lawson, is it poor? Should I learn about characteristic classes before index theorem? Or, please tell me another good book. Thank you in advance.
I'm far from an expert on these things, but I think that you might find Andreas Rosén's Geometric Multivector Analysis: From Grassmann to Dirac useful. It starts out with exterior and Clifford algebras, and ends with Atiyah–Singer. At least the parts that I have read so far are very nicely written.