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Speaker:
Lennart Meier
Affiliation:
Utrecht University
Date:
Thu, 10/09/2026 - 16:30 - 17:30
Location:
MPIM Lecture Hall Witten constructed a modular form-valued genus for any manifold with a $U<6>$-structure. Motivated by this, Ando, Hopkins and Strickland characterized all ring maps from $MU<6>$ to even-periodic spectra in terms of cubical structures and characterized the Witten genus in these terms.
In this talk, I will explore how one can combine their insights with equivariant topological modular forms to try to construct an equivariant string orientation, further refining the Witten genus.
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