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Rigidity of elliptic genera for nonspin manifolds

Michael Wiemeler

Algebraic & Geometric Topology 25 (2025) 2083–2097
Abstract

We discuss the rigidity of elliptic genera for nonspin manifolds M with S1-action. We show that if the universal covering of M is spin, then the universal elliptic genus of M is rigid. Moreover, we show that there is no condition which only depends on π2(M) that guarantees the rigidity in the case that the universal covering of M is nonspin.

Keywords
rigidity of elliptic genera, orientability of fixed point sets
Mathematical Subject Classification
Primary: 53C27, 57R15, 57R91, 57S15, 58J26
References
Publication
Received: 20 January 2023
Revised: 18 January 2024
Accepted: 15 February 2024
Published: 11 August 2025
Authors
Michael Wiemeler
Mathematisches Institut
Universität Münster
Münster
Germany

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