Integrals detecting degree 3 string cobordism classes

DOI10.1007/S40574-023-00378-4MaRDI QIDQ6412005FDOQ6412005

Authors: Domenico Fiorenza, Eugenio Landi 

Publication date: 26 September 2022

Abstract: The third string bordism group is known to be $mathbbZ/24mathbbZ$. Using Waldorf's notion of a geometric string structure on a manifold, Bunke--Naumann and Redden have exhibited integral formulas involving the Chern-Weil form representative of the first Pontryagin class and the canonical 3-form of a geometric string structure that realize the isomorphism $mathrm{Bord}_3^{mathrmString}omathbbZ/24mathbbZ$ (these formulas have been recently rediscovered by Gaiotto--Johnson-Freyd--Witten). We will show how these formulas naturally emerge when one considers certain natural $mathrmU(1)$-valued and $mathbbR$-valued 3d TQFT associated with the classifying stacks of Spin bundles with connection and of String bundles with geometric structure, respectively.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Finite-type and quantum invariants, topological quantum field theories (TQFT) (57K16)

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