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Local fibered right adjoints are polynomial
For any locally cartesian closed category E, we prove that a local fibered
right adjoint between slices of E is given by a polynomial. The slices in
question are taken in a well known fibered sense.Comment: 15 pages, LaTeX; final version (v2), to appear in Math. Struct. Comp.
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Characteristic numbers of rational curves with cusp or prescribed triple contact
This note pursues the techniques of modified psi classes on the stack of
stable maps (cf. [Graber-Kock-Pandharipande]) to give concise solutions to the
characteristic number problem of rational curves in P^2 or P^1 x P^1 with a
cusp or a prescribed triple contact. The classes of such loci are computed in
terms of modified psi classes, diagonal classes, and certain codimension-2
boundary classes. Via topological recursions the generating functions for the
numbers can then be expressed in terms of the usual characteristic number
potentials.Comment: 19 pages, LaTeX, uses rsfs fonts. Tables and maple code hidden in
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Some matrices with nilpotent entries, and their determinants
We study algebraic properties of matrices whose rows are mutual neighbours,
and are also neigbours of 0 ("neighbour" in the sense of a certain nilpotency
condition). The intended application is in synthetic differential geometry. For
a square matrix of this kind, the product of the diagonal entries equals the
determinant, modulo a factor n
Theory of characteristics for first order partial differential equations
We use the method of synthetic differential geometry to revisit the geometric
reasoning employed by Lie, Klein and others in their study of partial
differential equations
Elementary remarks on units in monoidal categories
We explore an alternative definition of unit in a monoidal category
originally due to Saavedra: a Saavedra unit is a cancellative idempotent (in a
1-categorical sense). This notion is more economical than the usual notion in
terms of left-right constraints, and is motivated by higher category theory. To
start, we describe the semi-monoidal category of all possible unit structures
on a given semi-monoidal category and observe that it is contractible (if
nonempty). Then we prove that the two notions of units are equivalent in a
strong functorial sense. Next, it is shown that the unit compatibility
condition for a (strong) monoidal functor is precisely the condition for the
functor to lift to the categories of units, and it is explained how the notion
of Saavedra unit naturally leads to the equivalent non-algebraic notion of fair
monoidal category, where the contractible multitude of units is considered as a
whole instead of choosing one unit. To finish, the lax version of the unit
comparison is considered. The paper is self-contained. All arguments are
elementary, some of them of a certain beauty.Comment: Comments: LaTeX, 29 pages. Uses Paul Taylor's diagrams package. Does
not compile properly with pdflatex. Version v2: introduction rewritten, minor
expository improvements (no mathematical changes), submitted for publicatio
Perturbative renormalisation for not-quite-connected bialgebras
We observe that the Connes--Kreimer Hopf-algebraic approach to perturbative
renormalisation works not just for Hopf algebras but more generally for
filtered bialgebras with the property that is spanned by group-like
elements (e.g. pointed bialgebras with the coradical filtration). Such
bialgebras occur naturally both in Quantum Field Theory, where they have some
attractive features, and elsewhere in Combinatorics, where they cover a
comprehensive class of incidence bialgebras. In particular, the setting allows
us to interpret M\"obius inversion as an instance of renormalisation.Comment: 12 pages, comments are most welcom
Recursion for twisted descendants and characteristic numbers of rational curves
On a space of stable maps, the psi classes are modified by subtracting
certain boundary divisors. The top products of modified psi classes, usual psi
classes, and classes pulled back along the evaluation maps are called twisted
descendants; it is shown that in genus 0, they admit a complete recursion and
are determined by the Gromov-Witten invariants. One motivation for this
construction is that all characteristic numbers (of rational curves) can be
interpreted as twisted descendants; this is explained in the second part, using
pointed tangency classes. As an example, some of Schubert's numbers of twisted
cubics are verified.Comment: 20 pages, LaTeX, uses Paul Taylor's commutative diagrams packag
Bundle functors and fibrations
We give an account, in terms of fibered categories and their fibrewise duals,
of aspects of the theory of bundle functors and star-bundle functors in
differential geometry.Comment: 24 page
Graphs, hypergraphs, and properads
A categorical formalism for directed graphs is introduced, featuring natural
notions of morphisms and subgraphs, and leading to two elementary descriptions
of the free-properad monad, first in terms of presheaves on elementary graphs,
second in terms of groupoid-enriched hypergraphs.Comment: v2: substantial revision: corrected a few mistakes concerning
convexity; added more details regarding colimits of graphs, associativity of
the monad multiplication, generic factorisation, and the nerve theorem; added
six references; 40 pages. v3: typos and references; submitte
Affine combinations in affine schemes
We prove that finite sets of mutual neighbor points in an affine scheme admit
affine combinations, preserved by any map. Furthermore, such combination has a
value which is neighbor point of all the original points
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