Buchstaber Genus and Formal Groups

We introduce a new class of formal group laws whose modulus square construction yields Buchstaber’s family of polynomials. This class is related to, but does not coincide with, the family of formal group laws associated with the Krichever genus. We compute the values of the corresponding Hirzebruch genus on theta divisors and complex projective spaces, describe its relation to the Ochanine, Krichever, and Witten genera, and show how this construction gives examples not arising from Hirzebruch’s elliptic genera of level $n$.

The talk is based on the paper; see also the preprint arXiv:2603.21118:

M. I. Kornev, “Buchstaber, Ochanine, Krichever, and Witten genera,” Journal of Geometry and Physics, Volume 226, Number 105855, (2026).