144 research outputs found
"Del Pezzo surfaces as Springer fibres for exceptional groups"
We show that simultaneous log resolutions of simply elliptic singularities
can be constructed inside suitable stacks of principal bundles over elliptic
curves. In particular, we give a direct geometrical construction of del Pezzo
surfaces from the corresponding exceptional simple algebraic groups.Comment: This is a re-written version of "From exceptional groups to del Pezzo
surfaces and simultaneous log resolutions via principal bundles over elliptic
curves". It contains 2 figures. This version corrects one of the figure
The sigma orientation for analytic circle-equivariant elliptic cohomology
We construct a canonical Thom isomorphism in Grojnowski's equivariant
elliptic cohomology, for virtual T-oriented T-equivariant spin bundles with
vanishing Borel-equivariant second Chern class, which is natural under
pull-back of vector bundles and exponential under Whitney sum. It extends in
the complex-analytic case the non-equivariant sigma orientation of Hopkins,
Strickland, and the author. The construction relates the sigma orientation to
the representation theory of loop groups and Looijenga's weighted projective
space, and sheds light even on the non-equivariant case. Rigidity theorems of
Witten-Bott-Taubes including generalizations by Kefeng Liu follow.Comment: Published in Geometry and Topology at
http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/gt/GTVol7/paper3.abs.htm
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