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    Equivariant Cohomology of Rationally Smooth Group Embeddings

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    We describe the equivariant cohomology ring of rationally smooth projective embeddings of reductive groups. These embeddings are the projectivizations of reductive monoids. Our main result describes their equivariant cohomology in terms of roots, idempotents, and underlying monoid data. Also, we characterize those embeddings whose equivariant cohomology ring is obtained via restriction to the associated toric variety. Such characterization is given in terms of the closed orbits.Comment: 25 pages. Final version. To appear in Transformation Group

    Involutions on S^6 with 3-dimensional fixed point set

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    In this article, we classify all involutions on S^6 with 3-dimensional fixed point set. In particular, we discuss the relation between the classification of involutions with fixed point set a knotted 3-sphere and the classification of free involutions on homotopy CP^3's.Comment: 23 page

    Minimal genera of open 4-manifolds

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    We study exotic smoothings of open 4-manifolds using the minimal genus function and its analog for end homology. While traditional techniques in open 4-manifold smoothing theory give no control of minimal genera, we make progress by using the adjunction inequality for Stein surfaces. Smoothings can be constructed with much more control of these genus functions than the compact setting seems to allow. As an application, we expand the range of 4-manifolds known to have exotic smoothings (up to diffeomorphism). For example, every 2-handlebody interior (possibly infinite or nonorientable) has an exotic smoothing, and "most" have infinitely, or sometimes uncountably many, distinguished by the genus function and admitting Stein structures when orientable. Manifolds with 3-homology are also accessible. We investigate topological submanifolds of smooth 4-manifolds. Every domain of holomorphy (Stein open subset) in the complex plane C2C^2 is topologically isotopic to uncountably many other diffeomorphism types of domains of holomorphy with the same genus functions, or with varying but controlled genus functions.Comment: 30 pages, 1 figure. v3 is essentially the version published in Geometry and Topology, obtained from v2 by major streamlining for readability. Several new examples added since v2; see last paragraph of introduction for detail

    Gravity Dual of a Quantum Hall Plateau Transition

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    We show how to model the transition between distinct quantum Hall plateaus in terms of D-branes in string theory. A low energy theory of 2+1 dimensional fermions is obtained by considering the D3-D7 system, and the plateau transition corresponds to moving the branes through one another. We study the transition at strong coupling using gauge/gravity duality and the probe approximation. Strong coupling leads to a novel kind of plateau transition: at low temperatures the transition remains discontinuous due to the effects of dynamical symmetry breaking and mass generation, and at high temperatures is only partially smoothed out.Comment: 27 pages, 6 figures, harvmac; v2, references and minor comments added, version to be submitted to JHEP; v3, corrections to section

    Conformal nets I: coordinate-free nets

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    We describe a coordinate-free perspective on conformal nets, as functors from intervals to von Neumann algebras. We discuss an operation of fusion of intervals and observe that a conformal net takes a fused interval to the fiber product of von Neumann algebras. Though coordinate-free nets do not a priori have vacuum sectors, we show that there is a vacuum sector canonically associated to any circle equipped with a conformal structure. This is the first in a series of papers constructing a 3-category of conformal nets, defects, sectors, and intertwiners.Comment: Updated to published versio
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