Beyond the string genus

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2011.04.017MaRDI QIDQ656619zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Orlando Alvarez, I. M. Singer

Publication date 18 January 2012

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.2294

zbMATH Keywords

elliptic genusstring theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15) Applications of global analysis to structures on manifolds (57R57) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

Abstract: In an earlier work we used a path integral analysis to propose a higher genus generalization of the elliptic genus. We found a cobordism invariant parametrized by Teichmuller space. Here we simplify the formula and study the behavior of our invariant under the action of the mapping class group of the Riemann surface. We find that our invariant is a modular function with multiplier just as in genus one.

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