Chern numbers and the indices of some elliptic differential operators
Differential Geometry
2018-10-18 v2 Algebraic Topology
Abstract
Libgober and Wood proved that the Chern number of a -dimensional compact complex manifold can be determined by its Hirzebruch -genus. Inspired by the idea of their proof, we show that, for compact, spin, almost-complex manifolds, more Chern numbers can be determined by the indices of some twisted Dirac and signature operators. As a byproduct, we get a divisibility result of certain characteristic number for such manifolds. Using our method, we give a direct proof of Libgober-Wood's result, which was originally proved by induction.
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@article{arxiv.1004.2142,
title = {Chern numbers and the indices of some elliptic differential operators},
author = {Ping Li},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.2142},
year = {2018}
}
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9 pages, to appear in Pacific Journal of Mathematics