String structures and canonical 3-forms

DOI10.2140/pjm.2011.249.447zbMath1222.57023arXiv0912.2086OpenAlexW3105891980MaRDI QIDQ627407

Corbett Redden

Publication date: 1 March 2011

Published in: Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.2086

zbMATH Keywords

spin structurepositive Ricci curvaturestring structurecohomology tmf (Topological Modular Forms)differential characters

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hodge theory in global analysis (58A14) Elliptic cohomology (55N34) Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28) Specialized structures on manifolds (spin manifolds, framed manifolds, etc.) (57R15) Connections (general theory) (53C05)

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