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A walk in the noncommutative garden
This text is written for the volume of the school/conference "Noncommutative
Geometry 2005" held at IPM Tehran. It gives a survey of methods and results in
noncommutative geometry, based on a discussion of significant examples of
noncommutative spaces in geometry, number theory, and physics. The paper also
contains an outline (the ``Tehran program'') of ongoing joint work with Consani
on the noncommutative geometry of the adeles class space and its relation to
number theoretic questions.Comment: 106 pages, LaTeX, 23 figure
Dyson-Schwinger equations in the theory of computation
Following Manin's approach to renormalization in the theory of computation,
we investigate Dyson-Schwinger equations on Hopf algebras, operads and
properads of flow charts, as a way of encoding self-similarity structures in
the theory of algorithms computing primitive and partial recursive functions
and in the halting problem.Comment: 26 pages, LaTeX, final version, in "Feynman Amplitudes, Periods and
Motives", Contemporary Mathematics, AMS 201
Algebraic Principles for Rely-Guarantee Style Concurrency Verification Tools
We provide simple equational principles for deriving rely-guarantee-style
inference rules and refinement laws based on idempotent semirings. We link the
algebraic layer with concrete models of programs based on languages and
execution traces. We have implemented the approach in Isabelle/HOL as a
lightweight concurrency verification tool that supports reasoning about the
control and data flow of concurrent programs with shared variables at different
levels of abstraction. This is illustrated on two simple verification examples
Elliptic Operators and Higher Signatures
Building on the theory of elliptic operators, we give a unified treatment of
the following topics:
- the problem of homotopy invariance of Novikov's higher signatures on closed
manifolds;
- the problem of cut-and-paste invariance of Novikov's higher signatures on
closed manifolds;
- the problem of defining higher signatures on manifolds with boundary and
proving their homotopy invariance.Comment: 54 pages. Survey-article. Related papers can be retrieved from
http://www.mat.uniroma1.it/people/piazz
Toward a fundamental groupoid for the stable homotopy category
This very speculative sketch suggests that a theory of fundamental groupoids
for tensor triangulated categories could be used to describe the ring of
integers as the singular fiber in a family of ring-spectra parametrized by a
structure space for the stable homotopy category, and that Bousfield
localization might be part of a theory of `nearby' cycles for stacks or
orbifolds.Comment: This is the version published by Geometry & Topology Monographs on 18
April 200
Feynman integrals and motives
This article gives an overview of recent results on the relation between
quantum field theory and motives, with an emphasis on two different approaches:
a "bottom-up" approach based on the algebraic geometry of varieties associated
to Feynman graphs, and a "top-down" approach based on the comparison of the
properties of associated categorical structures. This survey is mostly based on
joint work of the author with Paolo Aluffi, along the lines of the first
approach, and on previous work of the author with Alain Connes on the second
approach.Comment: 32 pages LaTeX, 3 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of the 5th
European Congress of Mathematic
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