429 research outputs found
Brauer groups and quotient stacks
A natural question is to determine which algebraic stacks are qoutient
stacks. In this paper we give some partial answers and relate it to the old
question of whether, for a scheme X, the natural map from the Brauer goup
(equivalence classes of Azumaya algebras) to the cohomological Brauer group
(the torsion subgroup of is surjective.Comment: American J. Math, to appear. (Latex2e, 17pp
There is no degree map for 0-cycles on Artin stacks
We show that there is no way to define degrees of 0-cycles on Artin stacks
with proper good moduli spaces so that (i) the degree of an ordinary point is
non-zero, and (ii) degrees are compatible with closed immersions.Comment: 3 page
K-orbit closures on G/B as universal degeneracy loci for flagged vector bundles with symmetric or skew-symmetric bilinear form
We use equivariant localization and divided difference operators to determine
formulas for the torus-equivariant fundamental cohomology classes of -orbit
closures on the flag variety , where G = GL(n,\C), and where is one
of the symmetric subgroups O(n,\C) or Sp(n,\C). We realize these orbit
closures as universal degeneracy loci for a vector bundle over a variety
equipped with a single flag of subbundles and a nondegenerate symmetric or
skew-symmetric bilinear form taking values in the trivial bundle. We describe
how our equivariant formulas can be interpreted as giving formulas for the
classes of such loci in terms of the Chern classes of the various bundles.Comment: Minor revisions and corrections suggested by referees. Final version,
to appear in Transformation Group
An extremal effective survey about extremal effective cycles in moduli spaces of curves
We survey recent developments and open problems about extremal effective
divisors and higher codimension cycles in moduli spaces of curves.Comment: Submitted to the Proceedings of the Abel Symposium 2017. Comments are
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Equivariant pretheories and invariants of torsors
In the present paper we introduce and study the notion of an equivariant
pretheory: basic examples include equivariant Chow groups, equivariant K-theory
and equivariant algebraic cobordism. To extend this set of examples we define
an equivariant (co)homology theory with coefficients in a Rost cycle module and
provide a version of Merkurjev's (equivariant K-theory) spectral sequence for
such a theory. As an application we generalize the theorem of
Karpenko-Merkurjev on G-torsors and rational cycles; to every G-torsor E and a
G-equivariant pretheory we associate a graded ring which serves as an invariant
of E. In the case of Chow groups this ring encodes the information concerning
the motivic J-invariant of E and in the case of Grothendieck's K_0 -- indexes
of the respective Tits algebras.Comment: 23 pages; this is an essentially extended version of the previous
preprint: the construction of an equivariant cycle (co)homology and the
spectral sequence (generalizing the long exact localization sequence) are
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Tilt Texture Domains on a Membrane and Chirality induced Budding
We study the equilibrium conformations of a lipid domain on a planar fluid
membrane where the domain is decorated by a vector field representing the tilt
of the stiff fatty acid chains of the lipid molecules, while the surrounding
membrane is fluid and structureless. The inclusion of chirality in the bulk of
the domain induces a novel budding of the membrane, which preempts the budding
induced by a decrease in interfacial tension.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
A FRAP model to investigate reaction-diffusion of proteins within a bounded domain: a theoretical approach
Temporally and spatially resolved measurements of protein transport inside
cells provide important clues to the functional architecture and dynamics of
biological systems. Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching (FRAP) technique
has been used over the past three decades to measure the mobility of
macromolecules and protein transport and interaction with immobile structures
inside the cell nucleus. A theoretical model is presented that aims to describe
protein transport inside the nucleus, a process which is influenced by the
presence of a boundary (i.e. membrane). A set of reaction-diffusion equations
is employed to model both the diffusion of proteins and their interaction with
immobile binding sites. The proposed model has been designed to be applied to
biological samples with a Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope (CLSM) equipped
with the feature to bleach regions characterised by a scanning beam that has a
radially Gaussian distributed profile. The proposed model leads to FRAP curves
that depend on the on- and off-rates. Semi-analytical expressions are used to
define the boundaries of on- (off-) rate parameter space in simplified cases
when molecules move within a bounded domain. The theoretical model can be used
in conjunction to experimental data acquired by CLSM to investigate the
biophysical properties of proteins in living cells.Comment: 25 pages. Abstracts Proceedings, The American Society for Cell
Biology, 46th Annual Meeting, December 9-13, 2006, San Dieg
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