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Superconnections, theta series, and period domains

Garcia, LE; (2018) Superconnections, theta series, and period domains. Advances in Mathematics , 329 pp. 555-589. 10.1016/j.aim.2017.12.021. Green open access

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Abstract

We use superconnections to define and study some natural differential forms on the period domain D that parametrizes polarized Hodge structures of given type on a rational quadratic vector space V. These forms depend on a choice of vectors v_{1},...,v_{r} \epsilon V and have a Gaussian shape that peaks on the locus where v_{1},...,v_{r} become Hodge classes. We show that they can be rescaled so that one can form theta series by summing over a lattice L^{T} C V^{T}. These series define differential forms on arithmetic quotients Γ\D. We compute their cohomology class explicitly in terms of the cohomology classes of Hodge loci in Γ\D. When the period domain is a hermitian symmetric domain of type IV, we show that the components of our forms of appropriate degree recover the forms introduced by Kudla and Millson. In particular, our results provide another way to establish the main properties of these forms.

Type: Article
Title: Superconnections, theta series, and period domains
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.aim.2017.12.021
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aim.2017.12.021
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Kudla–Millson forms, Special cycles, Theta correspondence, Quillen–Chern–Weil theory
UCL classification: UCL
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10086957
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