Rigidity of differential operators and Chern numbers of singular varieties

zbMATH Open1236.58031arXiv0902.4518MaRDI QIDQ3171850FDOQ3171850

Robert Waelder

Publication date: 5 October 2011

Abstract: A differential operator $D$ commuting with an $S^1$-action is said to be rigid if the non-constant Fourier coefficients of $kerD$ and $cokerD$ are the same. Somewhat surprisingly, the study of rigid differential operators turns out to be closely related to the problem of defining Chern numbers on singular varieties. This relationship comes into play when we make use of the rigidity properties of the complex elliptic genus--essentially an infinite-dimensional analogue of a Dirac operator. This paper is a survey of rigidity theorems related to the elliptic genus, and their applications to the construction "singular" Chern numbers.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0902.4518

zbMATH Keywords

elliptic generasingular varietyChern number

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rigidity results (53C24) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Elliptic genera (58J26)

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