Quadratic functions in geometry, topology, and \(M\)-theory

DOI10.4310/jdg/1143642908zbMath1116.58018arXivmath/0211216OpenAlexW1851508906WikidataQ115197626 ScholiaQ115197626MaRDI QIDQ2494209

Michael J. Hopkins, I. M. Singer

Publication date: 19 June 2006

Published in: Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0211216

zbMATH Keywords

differential cocycles, differential function spaces, differential cohomology theoriesgeneralized index theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28) Algebraic topology on manifolds and differential topology (57R19)

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