Brylinski's positive-energy representation conjecture for elliptic cohomology

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Let mm be an integer, and let Pm(d)P_m(d) be the free abelian group generated by the isomorphism classes of irreducible positive-energy representations of the universal central extension L~Spin⁡(d)\tilde{L}\operatorname{Spin}(d) of the free loop group LSpin⁡(d)L\operatorname{Spin}(d) at level mm. Let BString⁡(d)B\operatorname{String}(d) denote the 7-connected cover of BSpin⁡(d)B\operatorname{Spin}(d), and let λ\lambda be the elliptic character. Brylinski's conjecture. There is an integer nn depending on dd and mm and an additive map

φd:Pm(d)⟶TMF(n)0BString⁡(d)\varphi_d:P_m(d)\longrightarrow TMF(n)^0B\operatorname{String}(d)

such that, for every V∈Pm(d)V\in P_m(d), its elliptic character agrees with the associated bundle

λφd(V)=(L~ESpin⁡(d)×L~Spin⁡(d)V)∣BString⁡(d).\lambda\varphi_d(V)=(\tilde{L}E\operatorname{Spin}(d)\times_{\tilde{L}\operatorname{Spin}(d)}V)_{|B\operatorname{String}(d)}.

This conjectures that positive-energy loop-group representations define classes in topological modular forms whose elliptic characters recover the expected associated bundles. The source attributes the underlying idea to Brylinski; the supplied text does not state whether the conjecture has been proved or disproved.

References

Primary source

Gerd Laures, “Characteristic classes in TMF of level Γ_1(3)”, arXiv:1304.3588 (2014).

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