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Let k be a field of characteristic not 2. We conjecture that if X is a quasi-projective k-variety with trivial motivic Euler characteristic, then Sym$^n$X has trivial motivic Euler characteristic for all n. Conditional on this conjecture,…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-08 Dori Bejleri , Stephen McKean

We define real topological Hochschild homology of separated log schemes with involutions. We show that real topological Hochschild homology is $(\mathbb{P}^n,\mathbb{P}^{n-1})$-invariant, which leads to the definition of the motivic real…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Doosung Park

We study here some aspects of the topology of the space of smooth, stable, genus 0 curves in a Riemannian manifold $X$, i.e. the Kontsevich stable curves, which are not necessarily holomorphic. We use the Hofer-Wysocki-Zehnder polyfold…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2012-05-18 Yasha Savelyev

We study the classification of closed, smooth, spin, $1$-connected $7$-manifolds whose integral cohomology ring is isomorphic to $H^*(\mathbb{C}P^2\times S^3)$. We also prove that if the integral cohomology ring of a closed, smooth, spin,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-12-13 Xueqi Wang

A theory of characteristic classes of vector bundles and smooth manifolds plays an important role in the theory of smooth manifolds. An investigation of reasonable notions of characteristic classes of singular spaces started since a…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Joerg Schuermann , Shoji Yokura

We study smooth projective varieties with small dual variety using methods from symplectic topology. We prove the affine parts of such varieties are subcritical, and that the hyperplane class is invertible in their quantum cohomology. We…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2012-06-29 Paul Biran , Yochay Jerby

Voevodsky outlined a conjectural programme that his slice filtration in motivic homotopy theory should give rise to a good theory of $\mathbb{A}^1$-invariant motivic cohomology. This paper achieves his vision in the generality of arbitrary…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2025-08-14 Tom Bachmann , Elden Elmanto , Matthew Morrow

Stiefel-Whitney classes are invariants of the tangent bundle of a smooth manifold, represented as cohomology classes of the base manifold. These classes are essential in obstruction theory, embedding problems, and cobordism theory. In this…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-04-14 Dongwoo Gang

Cyclic coverings produce many examples of topologically contractible smooth affine complex varieties. In this paper, we study the motivic cohomology groups of cyclic coverings over algebraically closed fields of characteristic $0$. In…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Tariq Syed

We provide a differential cocycle model for elliptic cohomology with complex coefficients and use analytic methods to construct a cocycle representative for the Witten class in this language. Our motivation stems from the conjectural…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2016-08-08 Daniel Berwick-Evans

A rigidity property for the homotopy invariant stable linear framed presheaves is established. As a consequence a variant of Gabber rigidity theorem is obtained for a cohomology theory representable in the motivic stable homotopy category…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2018-04-04 Alexey Ananyevskiy , Andrei Druzhinin

We construct an exact tensor functor from the category $\mathcal{A}$ of finite-dimensional graded modules over the quiver Hecke algebra of type $A_\infty$ to the category $\mathscr C_{B^{(1)}_n}$ of finite-dimensional integrable modules…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-19 Masaki Kashiwara , Myungho Kim , Se-jin Oh

We describe torsion classes in the first cohomology group of $\text{SL}_2(\mathbb{Z})$. In particular, we obtain generalized Dickson's invariants for p-power polynomial rings. Secondly, we describe torsion classes in the zero-th homology…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-05-15 Taiwang Deng

We extend results of Colliot-Th\'el\`ene and Raskind on the $\mathcal{K}_2$-cohomology of smooth projective varieties over a separably closed field $k$ to the \'etale motivic cohomology of smooth, not necessarily projective, varieties over…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-11-22 Bruno Kahn

We construct motivic power operations on the mod-$p$ motivic cohomology of $\Fb_p$-schemes using a motivic refinement of Nizio{\l}'s theorem. The key input is a purity theorem for motivic cohomology established by Levine. Our operations…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Toni Annala , Elden Elmanto

We prove that singular cohomology of the underlying space of Berkovich's analytification of a scheme $X$ locally of finite type over a trivially-valued field $k$ of characteristic $0$ is isomorphic to cdh-cohomology with integer…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-28 Semen Molokov , Vadim Vologodsky

In the study of the rational cohomology of Hilbert schemes of points on a smooth surface, it is particularly interesting to understand the characteristic classes of the tautological bundles and the tangent bundle. In this note we pursue…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Samuel Boissiere , Marc A. Nieper-Wisskirchen

The primary interest of this paper is to discuss the role of twisting cochains in the theory of characteristic classes. We begin with the homological description of monodromy map, associated with a connection on a trivial bundle over a…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2010-01-22 G. I. Sharygin

We determine a nice simple formula for the largest Euclidean space for which there is an orientable n-manifold with a nonimmersion detected by Stiefel-Whitney classes. For Spin manifolds, we prove the analogue of the upper bound and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-03-23 Donald M. Davis , W. Stephen Wilson

We define, for a regular scheme $S$ and a given field of characteristic zero $\KK$, the notion of $\KK$-linear mixed Weil cohomology on smooth $S$-schemes by a simple set of properties, mainly: Nisnevich descent, homotopy invariance,…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2012-03-20 Denis-Charles Cisinski , Frédéric Déglise