27 research outputs found
Totally real immersions of surfaces
Totally real immersions of a closed real surface in an almost
complex surface are completely classified, up to homotopy through totally
real immersions, by suitably defined homotopy classes of mappings
from into a specific real 5-manifold , while
themselves are subject to a single cohomology constraint. This follows from
Gromov's observation that totally real immersions satisfy the h-principle. For
the receiving complex surfaces , , and CP^2 #
m\bar{CP^2}, , and all (or, CP^2 # 8\bar{CP^2} and all
orientable ), we illustrate the above nonconstructive result with
explicit examples of immersions realizing all possible equivalence classes. We
also determine which equivalence classes contain totally real embeddings, and
provide examples of such embeddings for all classes that contain them.Comment: 71 page
The ?2-cohomology of hyperplane complements
We compute the l^2-Betti numbers of the complement of any finite collection of affine hyperplanes in complex n-space. At most one of the l^2-Betti numbers is non-zero. <br/
Commensurability of graph products
Abstract We de ne graph products of families of pairs of groups and study the question when two such graph products are commensurable. As an application we prove linearity of certain graph products
Odd-dimensional Charney-Davis conjecture
More than once we have heard that the Charney-Davis Conjecture makes sense
only for odd-dimensional spheres. This is to point out that in fact it is also
a statement about even-dimensional spheres.Comment: 3 pages, no figure