Cubic forms, anomaly cancellation and modularity

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2021.108023MaRDI QIDQ2064466zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Fei Han, Weiping Zhang, Ruizhi Huang, Kefeng Liu

Publication date 6 January 2022

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.02344

zbMATH Keywords

anomaly cancellationcubic formM-theorymodular formspin and spin\(^c\) classestwisted Witten class

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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 $eta$-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 $E_8$.

Review text

In [\textit{D. S. Freed} and \textit{M. J. Hopkins}, Q. J. Math. 72, No. 1--2, 603--671 (2021; Zbl 1479.81060)] it is shown that the anomaly in M-theory arising from the Rarita-Schwinger field and from the Chern-Simons coupling cancels in the \(\mathrm{pin}^+\) case. In addition an algebraic theory of cubic forms is developed. For spin manifolds this anomaly cancellation was derived in \textit{E. Witten}, J. Geom. Phys. 22, No. 1, 1--13 (1997; Zbl 0908.53065). Starting from these results in this paper new cubic forms are introduced in the \(\textrm{spin}, \textrm{spin}^c, \textrm{spin}^{\omega_2}\) cases and in the orientable case on a 12-dimensional manifolds. Then a relation with \(\eta\)-invariants for manifolds with boundary, and with indices on certain 10-dimensional submanifolds in the \(\textrm{spin}^c\) and \( \textrm{spin}^{\omega_2}\) case are derived.

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