Elliptic genera and quantum field theory

DOI10.1007/BF01208956zbMath0625.57008MaRDI QIDQ579673

Edward Witten

Publication date: 1987

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

zbMATH Keywords

Dedekind's eta function; modular function; elliptic genera; elliptic genus; rational Pontryagin class; elliptic cohomology; Atiyah-Singer index theorem; Circle actions on Spin manifolds; equivariant elliptic genera; index of the Dirac operator in loop space; modular form of weight d/2; supercharge of the supersymmetric nonlinear sigma model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

57S15: Compact Lie groups of differentiable transformations

57R20: Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology

81T99: Quantum field theory; related classical field theories

58J22: Exotic index theories on manifolds

11F11: Holomorphic modular forms of integral weight

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