An integral Riemann-Roch theorem for surface bundles

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2010.06.001MaRDI QIDQ607345zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ib Madsen

Publication date 22 November 2010

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0901.4240

zbMATH Keywords

Bernoulli numbersHodge bundleintegral Riemann-Roch theoremsurface bundlestwisted d-bar operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Riemann-Roch theorems (14C40) Riemann-Roch theorems, Chern characters (19L10) Topological (K)-theory (55N15) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Index theory and related fixed-point theorems on manifolds (58J20)

Abstract: This paper proves an integral version of the Riemann-Roch theorem for surface bundles, comparing the standard cohomology classes with the cohomology classes coming from the symplectic group.

Review text

Let \(\pi: E\to B\) a locally trivial surface bundle with oriented closed fibers of genus \(g\). The author considers the real \(1\)-cohomology vector bundle \(\mathcal H\) with fiber \(H^1(E_b)\), with complex structure induced by the Hodge \(*\) operator. By the index formula, its Chern character in rational cohomology can be computed in terms of the push-forward to \(B\) of powers of the first Chern class of the vertical tangent bundle to \(\pi\). In [\textit{T. Akita}, Nagoya Math. J. 165, 1--22 (2002; Zbl 1041.55011)], it was shown for special values of the degree \(n\) that a certain multiple of this identity (obtained by multiplying with the denominator of \(B_n/2n\), where \(B_n\) is the \(n\)-th Bernoulli number) could hold in \(H^{4n-2}(B,\mathbb{Z})\), and it was conjectured that the same is true in every degree. The author disproves this conjecture in general, but he proves another similar identity for integral cohomology involving the Hodge bundle and the index bundle of a certain twisted \(\bar{\partial}\) fiberwise operator.

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