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Poisson-Lie duality provides an algebraic extension of conventional Abelian and non-Abelian target space dualities of string theory and has seen recent applications in constructing quantum group deformations of holography. Here we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-13 Emanuel Malek , Daniel C. Thompson

We construct isomorphisms of the Grothendieck group of a projective space and other groups related to Hilbert polynomials and total Chern classes. This is inspired by a correspondence between Chern and Hilbert polynomials stated in…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 C-Y. Jean Chan

We generalize the Chern class relation for the transversal intersection of two nonsingular varieties to a relation for possibly singular varieties, under a 'splayedness' assumption. The relation is shown to hold for both the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-15 Paolo Aluffi , Eleonore Faber

We introduce certain relative differential characters which we call Cheeger-Chern-Simons characters. These combine the well-known Cheeger-Simons characters with Chern-Simons forms. In the same way as the Cheeger-Simons characters generalize…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-06 Christian Becker

Recent progress in generalised geometry and extended field theories suggests a deep connection between consistent truncations and dualities, which is not immediately obvious. A prime example is generalised Scherk-Schwarz reductions in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-23 Daniel Butter , Falk Hassler , Christopher N. Pope , Haoyu Zhang

What are called secondary characteristic classes in Chern-Weil theory are a refinement of ordinary characteristic classes of principal bundles from cohomology to differential cohomology. We consider the problem of refining the construction…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2013-09-30 Domenico Fiorenza , Urs Schreiber , Jim Stasheff

In this paper we show how to translate into tensorial language the Chern-Weil theorem for the Lorentz symmetry, which equates the difference of the Euler densities of two manifolds to the exterior derivative of a transgression form. For…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-29 Nathalie Deruelle , Nelson Merino , Rodrigo Olea

A result of A. King and C. Walter asserts that the Chow ring of a fine quiver moduli space is generated by the Chern classes of universal bundles if the quiver is acyclic. We will show that defining relations between these Chern classes…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2015-01-16 Hans Franzen

Integrals of the Pfaffian form over the nonsingular part of a projective variety compute information closely related to the Mather-Chern class of the variety and to other invariants such as the local Euler obstruction along strata of its…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-03 Paolo Aluffi , Mark Goresky

In this paper we prove that the linear Koszul duality isomorphism for convolution algebras in K-homology defined in a previous paper and the Fourier transform isomorphism for convolution algebras in Borel-Moore homology are related by the…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2015-09-15 Ivan Mirkovic , Simon Riche

A Chern-Weil construction for extensions of Lie-Rinehart algebras is introduced. This generalizes the classical Chern-Weil construction in differential geometry and yields characteristic classes for arbitrary extensions of Lie-Rinehart…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Johannes Huebschmann

We introduce Chern classes in $U(m)$-equivariant homotopical bordism that refine the Conner-Floyd-Chern classes in the $MU$-cohomology of $B U(m)$. For products of unitary groups, our Chern classes form regular sequences that generate the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-01-08 Stefan Schwede

Many two-dimensional classical field theories have hidden symmetries that form an infinite-dimensional algebra. For those examples that correspond to effective descriptions of compactified superstring theories, the duality group is expected…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 John H. Schwarz

We investigate some relations between the duality and the topological filtration in algebraic K-theory. As a result, we obtain a construction of the first Steenrod square for Chow groups modulo two of varieties over a field of arbitrary…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-11-14 Olivier Haution

Within the superfield approach, we consider the duality between the supersymmetric Maxwell-Chern-Simons and self-dual theories in three spacetime dimensions. Using a gauge embedding method, we construct the dual theory to the self-dual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 A. F. Ferrari , M. Gomes , J. R. S. Nascimento , A. Yu. Petrov , A. J. da Silva

We construct projectors in the ring of correspondences of a complex uniruled 3-fold $X$ which lift the Kuenneth components of the diagonal in singular cohomology and have other properties which were conjectured by J. Murre. Such Murre…

alg-geom · Mathematics 2014-10-24 Pedro Luis del Angel , Stefan Müller-Stach

The notion of higher order dual varieties of a projective variety, introduced in \cite{P83}, is a natural generalization of the classical notion of projective duality. In this paper we present geometric and combinatorial characterizations…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-19 Alicia Dickenstein , Ragni Piene

We introduce a notion of Homological Projective Duality for smooth algebraic varieties in dual projective spaces, a homological extension of the classical projective duality. If algebraic varieties $X$ and $Y$ in dual projective spaces are…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexander Kuznetsov

We show that a broad class of three-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ chiral Chern-Simons gauge theories admit an abelian and planar dual description. These chiral-planar dualities emerge by performing real mass deformations on known…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-04 Sergio Benvenuti , Riccardo Comi , Sara Pasquetti , Gabriel Pedde Ungureanu , Simone Rota , Anant Shri

Let $f : X \rightarrow B$ be a proper flat dominant morphism between two smooth quasi-projective complex varieties $X$ and $B$. Assume that there exists an integer $l$ such that all closed fibres $X_b$ of $f$ satisfy $CH_j(X_b) = \Q$ for…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2012-03-14 Charles Vial