Chern characters for supersymmetric field theories
Abstract
We construct a map from -dimensional Euclidean field theories to complexified K-theory when and complex analytic elliptic cohomology when . This provides further evidence for the Stolz--Teichner program, while also identifying candidate geometric models for Chern characters within their framework. The construction arises as a higher-dimensional and parameterized generalization of Fei Han's realization of the Chern character in K-theory as dimensional reduction for -dimensional Euclidean field theories. In the elliptic case, the main new feature is a subtle interplay between the geometry of the super moduli space of -dimensional tori and the derived geometry of complex analytic elliptic cohomology. As a corollary, we obtain an entirely geometric proof that partition functions of supersymmetric quantum field theories are weak modular forms, following a suggestion of Stolz and Teichner.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2010.03663,
title = {Chern characters for supersymmetric field theories},
author = {Daniel Berwick-Evans},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.03663},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
24 pages, to appear in Geometry and Topology