This is the calendar of the Illinois' Math Department Topology Seminar. Talks are generally on Tuesdays at 11am, followed by an (optional) lunch with the speaker.
In Fall 2024 and Spring 2025, the seminar room is Altgeld Hall 241 (unless specified otherwise).
There is a classical notion of elliptic genera, which assigns Jacobi forms to SU-manifolds. In this talk, I explain my work with Ying-Hsuan Lin (arXiv:2412.02298) to give its homotopy-theoretical refinements and variants, which we call "topological elliptic genera". The codomain becomes genuinely equivariant twisted Topological Modular Forms. In this talk, I explain the construction and physical idea behind, and discuss an application where we derive an interesting divisibility result of Euler numbers for Sp-manifolds. Also I explain a recent update with Tilman Bauer (in preparation) proving the surjectivity results of topological elliptic genera.
Department of Mathematics
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
273 Altgeld Hall
1409 W. Green Street (MC-382)
Urbana, IL 61801
Telephone: 217-333-3350
Email: math@illinois.edu