Modular Invariance and Chern-simons Transgression
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We compute the Chern-Simons transgressed forms of some modularly invariant characteristic forms, which are related to the elliptic genera. We study the modularity properties of these secondary characteristic forms and the relations among them.
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تاریخ انتشار 2006