Gravitational anomaly cancellation and modular invariance

DOI10.2140/AGT.2014.14.91MaRDI QIDQ384644zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Fei Han, Kefeng Liu

Publication date 28 November 2013

Published in Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1007.5295

zbMATH Keywords

gravitational anomaly cancellationindex gerbesmodular invariance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80)

Abstract: In this paper, by combining modular forms and characteristic forms, we obtain general anomaly cancellation formulas of any dimension. For $4k+2$ dimensional manifolds, our results include the gravitational anomaly cancellation formulas of Alvarez-Gaum'e and Witten in dimensions 2, 6 and 10 (cite{AW}) as special cases. In dimension $4k+1$, we derive anomaly cancellation formulas for index gerbes. In dimension $4k+3$, we obtain certain results about eta invariants, which are interesting in spectral geometry.

Review text

General anomaly cancellation formulas (ACF) are obtained here by combining family index theory and the modular invariance of characteristic forms. For \((4k+2)\)-dimensional manifolds, the gravitational ACF generalize [\textit{L. Alvarez-Gaumé} and \textit{E. Witten}, ``Gravitational anomalies, Nuclear Physics. B 234, No. 2, 269--330 (1984; \url{doi:10.1016/0550-3213(84)90066-X})]. The present paper also derives ACF for the curvatures of the index gerbes of family odd signature operators and family tangent twisted Dirac operators on \((4k+1)\)-dimensional manifolds. In dimension \(4k+3\), some results for the reduced \(\eta\)-invariants of family odd signature operators and family tangent twisted Dirac operators are obtained, with applications in spectral geometry.

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