报告人🪒：韩飞博士(新加坡国立大学）

题目：Generalized Witten Genus and Complete Intersections

时间：2012年6月21日(星期四)下午2：00—3：00

地点：数学系致远楼107

摘要: Witten genus is the loop space analogue of the Hirzebruch A-hat genus. On a string manifold, the Witten genus is a modular form and is the equivariant index of the Dirac operator on the free loop space. Hohn and Stolz conjectured that existence of a positive Ricci curvature metric on a string manifold implies the vanishing of the Witten genus. In this talk, we will present vanishing results for generalized Witten genus on complete intersections and describe a possible mod 2 extension of the Hohn-Stolz conjecture. The talk is based on the joint work with Qingtao Chen and Weiping Zhang.