Modular invariance and characteristic numbers
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Abstract: We show that a general miraculous cancellation formula, the divisibility of certain characteristic numbers and some other topologiclal results are con- sequences of the modular invariance of elliptic operators on loop spaces. Previously we have shown that modular invariance also implies the rigidity of many elliptic operators on loop spaces.
An elliptic genus is a homomorphism from the oriented (Spin-) cobordism ring to some ring of classical modular forms. By evaluation of modular forms at the cusps (or other points) one recovers well-known genera like the \(L\)- or \(\widehat A\)-genus or twisted versions of them. Deep and hidden integrality and divisibility properties of the characteristic numbers associated to such genera can sometimes be obtained from well-known properties of modular forms. The paper under review establishes such a result. Strong divisibility theorems at the prime 2 for twisted \(\widehat A\)-genera of spin manifolds and associated Rokhlin invariants are obtained by the use of Jacobi theta-functions and their functional equations along the lines described above.
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