71 research outputs found
Quantization, Classical and Quantum Field Theory and Theta - Functions
In the abelian case (the subject of several beautiful books) fixing some
combinatorial structure (so called theta structure of level k) one obtains a
special basis in the space of sections of canonical polarization powers over
the jacobians. These sections can be presented as holomorphic functions on the
"abelian Schottky space". This fact provides various applications of these
concrete analytic formulas to the integrable systems, classical mechanics and
PDE's. Our practical goal is to do the same in the non abelian case that is to
give an answer to the Beauville's question. In future we hope to extend this
digest to a mathematical mohograph with title "VBAC".Comment: To Igor Rostislavovich Shafarevich on his 80th birthday (will be
published by CRS, Canada
The Lasserre hierarchy for equiangular lines with a fixed angle
We compute the second and third levels of the Lasserre hierarchy for the
spherical finite distance problem. A connection is used between invariants in
representations of the orthogonal group and representations of the general
linear group, which allows computations in high dimensions. We give new linear
bounds on the maximum number of equiangular lines in dimension with common
angle . These are obtained through asymptotic analysis in
of the semidefinite programming bound given by the second level.Comment: 25 pages, 2 figures. Submitted versio
Around the tangent cone theorem
A cornerstone of the theory of cohomology jump loci is the Tangent Cone
theorem, which relates the behavior around the origin of the characteristic and
resonance varieties of a space. We revisit this theorem, in both the algebraic
setting provided by cdga models, and in the topological setting provided by
fundamental groups and cohomology rings. The general theory is illustrated with
several classes of examples from geometry and topology: smooth quasi-projective
varieties, complex hyperplane arrangements and their Milnor fibers,
configuration spaces, and elliptic arrangements.Comment: 39 pages; to appear in the proceedings of the Configurations Spaces
Conference (Cortona 2014), Springer INdAM serie
Topologie
The Oberwolfach conference âTopologieâ is one of only a few opportunities for researchers from many different areas in algebraic and geometric topology to meet and exchange ideas. This year we emphasized two topics of recent interest: representation stability and motivic homotopy theory, with their respective applications to arithmetic, classical homotopy theory as well as algebraic geometry. Double lectures on each topic where given by Benson Farb and Dan Isaksen. The rest of the program spanned a wide range of topics ranging from topological Hochschild homology to obstruction theory of positive scalar curvature, via, to name a few, -theory of -algebras, modular characteristic classes, Goodwillie calculus, 2-Segal spaces and deformation quantization
Progress in Commutative Algebra 2
This is the second of two volumes of a state-of-the-art survey article collection which originates from three commutative algebra sessions at the 2009 Fall Southeastern American Mathematical Society Meeting at Florida Atlantic University. The articles reach into diverse areas of commutative algebra and build a bridge between Noetherian and non-Noetherian commutative algebra. These volumes present current trends in two of the most active areas of commutative algebra: non-noetherian rings (factorization, ideal theory, integrality), and noetherian rings (the local theory, graded situation, and interactions with combinatorics and geometry). This volume contains surveys on aspects of closure operations, finiteness conditions and factorization. Closure operations on ideals and modules are a bridge between noetherian and nonnoetherian commutative algebra. It contains a nice guide to closure operations by Epstein, but also contains an article on test ideals by Schwede and Tucker and more
Legendrian Weaves: N-graph Calculus, Flag Moduli and Applications
We study a class of Legendrian surfaces in contact five-folds by encoding
their wavefronts via planar combinatorial structures. We refer to these
surfaces as Legendrian weaves, and to the combinatorial objects as N-graphs.
First, we develop a diagrammatic calculus which encodes contact geometric
operations on Legendrian surfaces as multi-colored planar combinatorics.
Second, we present an algebraic-geometric characterization for the moduli space
of microlocal constructible sheaves associated to these Legendrian surfaces.
Then we use these N-graphs and the flag moduli description of these Legendrian
invariants for several new applications to contact and symplectic topology.
Applications include showing that any finite group can be realized as a
subfactor of a 3-dimensional Lagrangian concordance monoid for a Legendrian
surface in the 1-jet space of the two-sphere, a new construction of infinitely
many exact Lagrangian fillings for Legendrian links in the standard contact
three-sphere, and performing rational point counts over finite fields that
distinguish Legendrian surfaces in the standard five-dimensional Darboux chart.
In addition, the manuscript develops the notion of Legendrian mutation,
studying microlocal monodromies and their transformations. The appendix
illustrates the connection between our N-graph calculus for Lagrangian
cobordisms and Elias-Khovanov-Williamson's Soergel Calculus.Comment: 114 Pages, 105 Figure
Introduction to Vassiliev Knot Invariants
This book is a detailed introduction to the theory of finite type (Vassiliev)
knot invariants, with a stress on its combinatorial aspects. It is intended to
serve both as a textbook for readers with no or little background in this area,
and as a guide to some of the more advanced material. Our aim is to lead the
reader to understanding by means of pictures and calculations, and for this
reason we often prefer to convey the idea of the proof on an instructive
example rather than give a complete argument. While we have made an effort to
make the text reasonably self-contained, an advanced reader is sometimes
referred to the original papers for the technical details of the proofs.
Version 3: some typos and inaccuracies are corrected.Comment: 512 pages, thousands picture
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