Related papers: Anomaly cancellation and modularity: E8*E8*E8 case
Using $E_8$ bundles, we construct some modular forms over $SL(2,{\bf Z})$, $\Gamma^0(2)$ and $\Gamma_0(2)$. By these modular forms, we get some new anomaly cancellation formulas of characteristic forms.
Using $E_8$ bundles, we construct some new modular forms over $SL(2,{\bf Z})$, $\Gamma^0(2)$ and $\Gamma_0(2)$ and get some new anomaly cancellation formulas of characteristic forms which generalize some anomaly cancellation formulas in…
This paper aims to derive new anomaly cancellation formulas by combining modular forms with E8 and E8*E8 bundles. To this end, we systematically twist and generalize known SL(2,Z) modular forms to define new modular forms associated with…
In this paper, we extend the elliptic genus in [10] by the gauge group E_8 and the gauge group E_8*E_8. Then we prove that the generalized elliptic genus are the weak Jacobi forms. Using these elliptic genus, we obtain some SL_2(Z) modular…
In this paper we show that both of the Green-Schwarz anomaly factorization formula for the gauge group $E_8\times E_8$ and the Ho\v{r}ava-Witten anomaly factorization formula for the gauge group $E_8$ can be derived through modular forms of…
In [5], [6] and [8], the authors gave some modular forms over $\Gamma^0(2)$. In this note, we proceed with the study of cancellation formulas relating to the modular forms.
In \cite{HLZ2} and \cite{HHLZ}, using $E_8$ bundles, some modular forms over $SL(2,{\bf Z})$ were constructed on $12$-dimensional manifolds and the Witten-Freed-Hopkins anomaly cancellation formula was derived by these $SL(2,Z)$ modular…
In this paper, we generalize the anomaly cancellation formulas in \cite{AW, Liu1, HZ2} to the cases that an auxiliary bundle $W$ as well as a complex line bundle $\xi$ are involved with no conditions on the first Pontryagin forms being…
By studying modular invariance properties of some characteristic forms, we prove some new anomaly cancellation formulas which generalize the Han-Zhang and Han-Liu-Zhang anomaly cancellation formulas
In [7], Liu and Wang generalized the Han-Liu-Zhang cancellation formulas to the (a, b) type cancellation formulas. In this note, we prove some another (a, b) type cancellation formulas for even-dimensional Riemannian manifolds. And by…
In this paper, by combining modular forms and characteristic forms, we obtain general anomaly cancellation formulas of any dimension. For $4k+2$ dimensional manifolds, our results include the gravitational anomaly cancellation formulas of…
We give a direct proof of a cancellation formula raised in [7] on the level of differential forms. We also obtain more cancellation formulas for even dimensional Riemannian manifolds with a complex line bundle involved. Relations among…
By some SL(2, Z) modular forms introduced in [11] and [4] , we get some interesting anomaly cancellation formulas. As corollaries, we get some divisibility results of index of twisted Dirac operators.
By the family index theory, we generalize some well-known $SL(2,Z)$ modular forms to the family case and obtain some new anomaly cancellation formulas for the determinant line bundle and index gerbes, and certain results about eta…
We compute the transgressed forms of some modularly invariant characteristic forms,which are related to the twisted elliptic genera. We study the modularity properties of these secondary characteristic forms and relations among them. We…
By studying modular invariance properties of some characteristic forms, we get some new anomaly cancellation formulas on $(4r-1)$ dimensional manifolds. As an application, we derive some results on divisibilities of the index of Toeplitz…
Smooth manifolds of G_2 holonomy, used to compactify M-theory to four dimensions, give only abelian gauge groups without charged matter multiplets. But singular G_2-manifolds can give abelian or nonabelian gauge groups with chiral fermions.…
In a variant of chiral color with the electroweak gauge group generalized to $SU(3)_L \times U(1)$ anomaly cancellation occurs more readily than in the $SU(2)_L \times U(1)$ case. Three families are required by anomaly cancellation and the…
In earlier work we analyzed an abelianized model in which a gauged Rarita-Schwinger spin-$\frac{3}{2}$ field is directly coupled to a spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ field. Here we extend this analysis to the gauged $SU(8)$ model for which the…
By studying modular invariance properties of some characteristic forms, we obtain twisted anomaly cancellation formulas. We apply these twisted cancellation formulas to study divisibilities on spin manifolds and congruences on spin$^c$…