A geometric interpretation of the _y genus on hyper-Kähler manifolds

DOI10.1007/S002200000230MaRDI QIDQ1583874zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors George Thompson

Publication date 12 March 2001

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9905102

zbMATH Keywords

hyper-Kähler manifoldRozansky-Witten invariant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hyper-Kähler and quaternionic Kähler geometry, ``special geometry (53C26) Elliptic genera (58J26)

Abstract: The group SL(2) acts on the space of cohomology groups of any hyper-Kahler manifold X. The chi_{y} genus of a hyper-Kahler X is shown to have a geometric interpretation as the super trace of an element of SL(2). As a by product one learns that the generalized Casson invariant for a mapping torus is essentially the chi_{y} genus.

Review text

Any hyper-Kähler manifold \(M\) has a closed \((2,0)\)-form, which defines a holomorphic symplectic structure. It gives rise to an action of the group \(SL(2)\) on the cohomology \(H^{\ast}(M)\) if the manifold is compact. Let \(U \in SL(2)\) be an element which has eigenvalues \((y,1/y)\) in the standard representation. The main result of this short note is the following formula, which relates the super trace of \(U\) acting on the cohomology of \(M\) to Hirzebruch's \(\chi_y\) genus: \(\text{STr} U = \frac{\chi_y}{y^n}\). (The \(\chi_y\) genus interpolates between the Euler characteristic (\(y=-1\)), the Todd genus (\(y=0\)) and the signature (\(y=1\)).) The motivation for the above formula comes from the Rozansky-Witten invariant, which gives \(\text{STr} U\) when evaluated on a mapping torus \(T_U\). A similar formula involving a generalization of \(\chi_y\) is conjectured for the higher genus case.

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