Gravitational anomaly cancellation and modular invariance

DOI10.2140/AGT.2014.14.91MaRDI QIDQ384644zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

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

modular invariancegravitational anomaly cancellationindex gerbes

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.

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