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Mosc. Math. J., 2011 Volume 11, Number 1, Pages 139–147 (Mi mmj414)

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On rigid Hirzebruch genera

Oleg R. Musin

Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Brownsville, Brownsville, TX

Abstract: The classical multiplicative (Hirzebruch) genera of manifolds have the wonderful property which is called rigidity. Rigidity of a genus $h$ means that if a compact connected Lie group $G$ acts on a manifold $X$, then the equivariant genus $h^G(X)$ is independent on $G$, i.e., $h^G(X)=h(X)$.
In this paper we are considering the rigidity problem for stably complex manifolds. In particular, we are proving that a genus is rigid if and only if it is a generalized Todd genus.

Key words and phrases: Hirzebruch genus, rigid genus, complex bordism.

MSC: 55N22, 57R77

Received: February 11, 2009; in revised form July 10, 2010

Language: English

DOI: 10.17323/1609-4514-2011-11-1-139-147



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