Rozansky-Witten invariants via formal geometry
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We show that recently constructed invariants of 3-dimensional manifolds and of hyperkaehler manifolds (L.Rozansky and E.Witten, hep-th/9612216) come from characteristic classes of foliations and from Gelfand-Fuks cohomology. In particular, any symplectic foliation gives invariants of 3-manifolds.
Our preprint has many intersections with the preprint alg-geom/9704009 by M.Kapranov.
plain TeX, 11 pages
plain TeX, 11 pages