Rigidity of differential operators and Chern numbers of singular varieties

Details Rigidity of differential operators and Chern numbers of singular varieties Rigidity of differential operators and Chern numbers of singular varieties

2009-02-26

arxiv.org/abs/0902.4518v1

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Algebraic Geometry

18 pages, article for MSRI Topology of Stratified Spaces Proceedings

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A differential operator $D$ commuting with an $S^1$-action is said to be rigid if the non-constant Fourier coefficients of $\ker D$ and $\coker D$ are the same. Somewhat surprisingly, the study of rigid differential operators turns out to be closely related to the problem of defining Chern numbers on singular varieties. This relationship comes into play when we make use of the rigidity properties of the complex elliptic genus--essentially an infinite-dimensional analogue of a Dirac operator. This paper is a survey of rigidity theorems related to the elliptic genus, and their applications to the construction "singular" Chern numbers.

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