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From cubical structures to the string orientation

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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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