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Room P3.10, Mathematics Building
Gustavo Granja, Instituto Superior Técnico
Elliptic cohomology
I will explain how geometric descriptions of genera determine geometric descriptions of the associated cohomology theories and then give some examples. Then I will try to say something about the case of elliptic genera. For these the geometric description is still not rigorous.
References (I have copies of the non-web references, in case any one is interested):
- Haven't looked at this paper but it has a cool title: Dijkgraaf, R.; Moore, G.; Verlinde, E.; Verlinde, H., Elliptic genera of symmetric products and second quantized strings. Comm. Math. Phys. 185 (1997), no. 1, 197--209. hep-th/9608096
- Witten, Ed., Elliptic genera and quantum field theory. Comm. Math. Phys. 109 (1987), no. 4, 525--536. Postscript from KEK library
- Hopkins, Michael J. Characters and elliptic cohomology. Advances in homotopy theory (Cortona, 1988), 87--104, London Math. Soc. Lecture Note Ser., 139, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge-New York, 1989
- M. J. Hopkins, M. Ando, and N. P. Strickland, "Elliptic spectra, the Witten genus, and the theorem of the cube", dvi file
- Segal, G. "Elliptic cohomology (after Landweber-Stong, Ochanine, Witten, and others)". Séminaire Bourbaki, Vol. 1987/88. Astérisque No. 161-162, (1988), Exp. No. 695, 4, 187--201 (1989).