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The Beauville-Voisin conjecture for a hyperk\"ahler manifold X states that the subring of the Chow ring A^*(X) generated by divisor classes and Chern characters of the tangent bundle injects into the cohomology ring of X. We prove a weak…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-19 Davesh Maulik , Andrei Neguţ

In this article we construct explicit cocycles in the Alexander-Spanier cohomological complex, representing the Chern character of an element in K-theory.

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexander Gorokhovsky

This is a reproduction of my thesis. By using higher K-theory(Chern character, cyclic homology, effacement theorem and etc), we provide an answer to a question by Green- Griffiths which says the tangent sequence to Bloch-Gersten-Quillen…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-10-28 Sen Yang

The moduli space of principally polarized abelian varieties $A_g$ of genus g is defined over the integers and admits a minimal compactification $A_g^*$, also defined over the integers. The Hodge bundle over $A_g$ has its Chern classes in…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-19 Gerard van der Geer , Eduard Looijenga

In "Chern classes for coherent sheaves", H.I. Green constructs Chern classes in de Rham cohomology of coherent analytic sheaves. We construct here a formal $(\infty,1)$-categorical framework into which we can place Green's work and…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-28 Timothy Hosgood

An invariant for twisted K theory classes on a 3-manifold is introduced. The invariant is then applied to the twisted equivariant classes arising from the supersymmetric Wess-Zumino-Witten model based on the group SU(2). It is shown that…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2009-11-10 Jouko Mickelsson

We apply the machinery developed by the first-named author to the K-theory of coherent G-sheaves on a finite type G-scheme X over a field, where G is a finite group. This leads to a definition of G-equivariant higher Chow groups (different…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Marc Levine , Christian Serpé

In our previous two papers, we constructed an $r$-spin theory in genus zero for Riemann surfaces with boundary and fully determined the corresponding intersection numbers, providing an analogue of Witten's $r$-spin conjecture in genus zero…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Alexandr Buryak , Emily Clader , Ran J. Tessler

This paper gives a short summary of the central role played by Ed Brown's "twisting cochains" in higher Franz-Reidemeister (FR) torsion and higher analytic torsion. Briefly, any fiber bundle gives a twisting cochain which is unique up to…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2011-07-05 Kiyoshi Igusa

We define equivariant Chern classes of a toric vector bundle over a proper toric scheme over a DVR. We provide a combinatorial description of them in terms of piecewise polynomial functions on the polyhedral complex associated to the toric…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-01 Ana María Botero , Kiumars Kaveh , Christopher Manon

We explain how to construct a quantum deformation of a spectral curve to a tau-function of the KP hierarchy. This construction is applied to Witten-Kontsevich tau-function to give a natural explanation of some earlier work. We also apply it…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-11-30 Jian Zhou

Using the concept of a cohesive module defined by Block, we use the theory of superconnections in the sense of Quillen to construct natural superconnections on Hermitian cohesive modules. By the Chern-Weil construction, we obtain…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Hua Qiang

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

We compute rationally the topological (complex) K-theory of the classifying space BG of a discrete group provided that G has a cocompact G-CW-model for its classifying space for proper G-actions. For instance word-hyperbolic groups and…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Wolfgang Lueck

Suppose G is a compact Lie group and N is a closed normal subgroup of G acting freely on a smooth manifold X. The Cartan theorem alluded to in the title postulates the existence of a natural isomorphism between the G-equivariant cohomology…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Liviu I. Nicolaescu

Topological property in a spinning system should be directly associated with its wavefunction. A complete decomposition formula of SU(2) gauge potential in terms of spinning wavefunction is established rigorously. Based on the $\phi…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Yishi Duan , Libin Fu , Xin Liu

We construct a higher Whitehead torsion map, using algebraic K-theory of spaces, and show that it satisfies the usual properties of the classical Whitehead torsion. This is used to describe a "geometric assembly map" defined on stabilized…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Wolfgang Steimle

To understand what does Chern-Simons with compact Lie group(does not like Dijkgraaf-Witten model with finite group in 3d) attach to a point, we first give a construction of Topological Quantum Field Theory(TQFT) via Chern-Simons theory in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-12-05 Yifan Zhang , Ke Wu

The rational points of a smooth curve $X$ over a number field $k$ map to the set of augmentations of the associated motivic algebra. An expectation, related to Kim's conjecture, is that for $X$ hyperbolic, the set of augmentations which…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-08 L. Alexander Betts , Ishai Dan-Cohen

We study the operational bivariant theory associated to the covariant theory of Grothendieck groups of coherent sheaves, and prove that it has many geometric properties analogous to those of operational Chow theory. This operational…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-10 Dave Anderson , Sam Payne