GEOMETRY OF SPIN ANDSPINcSTRUCTURES IN THE M-THEORY PARTITION FUNCTION

DOI10.1142/S0129055X12500055zbMath1245.81223arXiv1005.1700MaRDI QIDQ2884802

Hisham Sati

Publication date: 18 May 2012

Published in: Reviews in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.1700

zbMATH Keywords

partition functionDirac operatorsM-theoryeta invariantfundamental groupK-theorypositive scalar curvatureAtiyah-Patodi-Singer index theoremadiabatic limitanomalieseta form\(\mathrm{spin}\) structures\(\mathrm{spin}^{c}\) structures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Index theory and related fixed-point theorems on manifolds (58J20) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28) Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory (81Q70) Index theory (19K56)

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