Analytic index for a family of Dirac–Ramond operators

DOI10.1073/pnas.0915124107zbMath1205.58013arXiv0904.4748WikidataQ33739981 ScholiaQ33739981MaRDI QIDQ3073970

Orlando Alvarez, Paul Windey

Publication date: 12 February 2011

Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0904.4748

zbMATH Keywords

modular forms; string theory; elliptic genera; index theory; families index

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

81T30: String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory

58J20: Index theory and related fixed-point theorems on manifolds

58J26: Elliptic genera

11F23: Relations with algebraic geometry and topology

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