Abelian varieties and theta functions associated to compact Riemannian manifolds; constructions inspired by superstring theory

DOI10.1016/J.MATPUR.2012.05.002MaRDI QIDQ715671zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Stefan Müller-Stach, Chris Peters, V. Srinivas

Publication date 31 October 2012

Published in Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées. Neuvième Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.4108

zbMATH Keywords

Dirac operatorspin manifoldRamond-Ramond fieldsgeneralized Weil Jacobianpolarized Hodge structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Theta functions and abelian varieties (14K25) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Theta functions and curves; Schottky problem (14H42) Global differential geometry (53C99)

Abstract: We look into a construction of principal abelian varieties attached to certain spin manifolds, due to Witten and Moore-Witten around 2000 and try to place it in a broader framework. This is related to Weil intermediate Jacobians but it also suggests to associate abelian varieties to polarized even weight Hodge structures. The latter construction can also be explained in terms of algebraic groups which might be useful from the point of view of Tannakian categories. The constructions depend on moduli much as in Teichm"uller theory although the period maps in general are only real analytic. One of the nice features is how the index for certain differential operators canonically associated to the geometry of the situation (spin structure, complex structure etc.) leads to integrality of skew pairings on the topological K-group (coming from the Index Theorem) which then serves as a polarization for the jacobian.

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