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    Integral bases for TQFT modules and unimodular representations of mapping class groups

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    We construct integral bases for the SO(3)-TQFT-modules of surfaces in genus one and two at roots of unity of prime order and show that the corresponding mapping class group representations preserve a unimodular Hermitian form over a ring of algebraic integers. For higher genus surfaces the Hermitian form sometimes must be non-unimodular. In one such case, genus 3 and p=5, we still give an explicit basis

    Some remarks on orbit sets of unimodular rows

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    We give a cohomological interpretation of orbit sets of unimodular rows of length d+1 over smooth algebras of Krull dimension d.Comment: 18 page

    Rationally Isomorphic Hermitian Forms and Torsors of Some Non-Reductive Groups

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    Let RR be a semilocal Dedekind domain. Under certain assumptions, we show that two (not necessarily unimodular) hermitian forms over an RR-algebra with involution, which are rationally ismorphic and have isomorphic semisimple coradicals, are in fact isomorphic. The same result is also obtained for quadratic forms equipped with an action of a finite group. The results have cohomological restatements that resemble the Grothendieck--Serre conjecture, except the group schemes involved are not reductive. We show that these group schemes are closely related to group schemes arising in Bruhat--Tits theory.Comment: 27 pages. Changes from previous version: Section 5 was split into two sections, several proofs have been simplified, other mild modification
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