Cubic forms, anomaly cancellation and modularity

Abstract: Motivated by the cubic forms and anomaly cancellation formulas of Witten-Freed-Hopkins, we give some new cubic forms on spin, spin

^{c}

, spin

^{w_{2}}

and orientable 12-manifolds respectively. We relate them to

e t a

-invariants when the manifolds are with boundary, and mod 2 indices on 10 dimensional characteristic submanifolds when the manifolds are spin

^{c}

or spin

^{w_{2}}

. Our method of producing these cubic forms is a combination of (generalized) Witten classes and the character of the basic representation of affine

E_{8}

.

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