Beyond the elliptic genus

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(02)00233-XMaRDI QIDQ1597899zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Orlando Alvarez, I. M. Singer

Publication date 3 June 2002

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0104199

zbMATH Keywords

Riemann surfaceRiemannian manifoldcobordism invariant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elliptic genera (58J26) Quantum field theory; related classical field theories (81T99)

Abstract: Given a Riemann surface and a riemannian manifold M with certain restrictions, we construct a cobordism invariant of M. This invariant is a generalization of the elliptic genus and it shares some similar properties.

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