The degree of a Schubert variety

We study integration along Bott-Samelson cycles. As an application the degree of a Schubert variety on a flag manifold G/B is evaluated in terms of certain Cartan numbers of G.     

Clifford theory for graded fusion categories

We develop a categorical analogue of Clifford theory for strongly graded rings over graded fusion categories. We describe module categories over a fusion category graded by a group G as induced from module categories over fusion subcategories associated with the subgroups of G. We define invariant C _e -module categories and extensions of C _e -module categories. The construction of module categories over C is reduced to determining invariant module categories for subgroups of G and the indecomposable extensions of these module categories. We associate a G-crossed product fusion category to each G-invariant C _e -module category and give a criterion for a graded fusion category to be a group-theoretical fusion category. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for an indecomposable module category to be extendable.     

Non-abelian differentiable gerbes

We study non-abelian differentiable gerbes over stacks using the theory of Lie groupoids. More precisely, we develop the theory of connections on Lie groupoid G-extensions, which we call “connections on gerbes”, and study the induced connections on various associated bundles. We also prove analogues of the Bianchi identities. In particular, we develop a cohomology theory which measures the existence of connections and curvings for G-gerbes over stacks. We also introduce G-central extensions of groupoids, generalizing the standard groupoid S¹-central extensions. As an example, we apply our theory to study the differential geometry of G-gerbes over a manifold.     

Numerically effectiveness and principal bundles on Kähler manifolds

Let E _G be a holomorphic principal G-bundle over a compact connected Kähler manifold, where G is a connected complex reductive linear algebraic group. Consider a line bundle over E _G /P corresponding to a character of P, where P is a parabolic subgroup of G. We give conditions for this holomorphic line bundle to be numerically effective.     

Subset-Sum Representations of Domination Polynomials

The domination polynomial D(G, x) is the ordinary generating function for the dominating sets of an undirected graph G = (V, E) with respect to their cardinality. We consider in this paper representations of D(G, x) as a sum over subsets of the edge and vertex set of G. One of our main results is a representation of D(G, x) as a sum ranging over spanning bipartite subgraphs of G. Let d(G) be the number of dominating sets of G. We call a graph G conformal if all of its components are of even order. Let Con(G) be the set of all vertex-induced conformal subgraphs of G and let k(G) be the number of components of G. We show that $$d(G) = \sum \limits_{H\in{\rm Con}(G)}2^{k(H)}$$ .     

Hamiltonicity and pancyclicity of cartesian products of graphs

The cartesian product of a graph G with K₂ is called a prism over G. We extend known conditions for hamiltonicity and pancyclicity of the prism over a graph G to the cartesian product of G with paths, cycles, cliques and general graphs. In particular we give results involving cubic graphs and almost claw-free graphs.We also prove the following: Let G and H be two connected graphs. Let both G and H have a 2-factor. If Δ(G)≤g^′(H) and Δ(H)≤g^′(G) (we denote by g^′(F) the length of a shortest cycle in a 2-factor of a graph F taken over all 2-factorization of F), then G□H is hamiltonian.     

Complete reducibility and conjugacy classes of tuples in algebraic groups and Lie algebras

Let H be a reductive subgroup of a reductive group G over an algebraically closed field k. We consider the action of H on G ⁿ , the n-fold Cartesian product of G with itself, by simultaneous conjugation. We give a purely algebraic characterization of the closed H-orbits in G ⁿ , generalizing work of Richardson which treats the case H = G. This characterization turns out to be a natural generalization of Serre??s notion of G-complete reducibility. This concept appears to be new, even in characteristic zero. We discuss how to extend some key results on G-complete reducibility in this framework. We also consider some rationality questions.     

The algebraic fundamental group of a reductive group scheme over an arbitrary base scheme

We define the algebraic fundamental group π ₁(G) of a reductive group scheme G over an arbitrary non-empty base scheme and show that the resulting functor G? π₁(G) is exact.     

The Coherent Cohomology Ring of an Algebraic Group

Let G be a group scheme of finite type over a field, and consider the cohomology ring H ^*(G) with coefficients in the structure sheaf. We show that H ^*(G) is a free module of finite rank over its component of degree 0, and is the exterior algebra of its component of degree 1. When G is connected, we determine the Hopf algebra structure of H ^*(G).     

The basis monomial ring of a matroid

We define the basis monomial ring M_G of a matroid G and prove that it is Cohen-Macaulay for finite G. We then compute the Krull dimension of M_G, which is the rank over Q of the basis-point incidence matrix of G, and prove that dim B_G ≥ dim M_G under a certain hypothesis on coordinatizability of G, where B_G is the bracket ring of G.     

On a class of polynomials obtained from the circuits in a graph and its application to characteristics polynomials of graphs

Let G be a graph. With each circuit α in G, we can associate a weight w_α, A circuit cover of G is a spanning subgraph of G in which every component is a circuit. With every circuit cover of G, we can associate the monomial Π_αw_α, where the product is taken over all components of the cover. The circuit polynomial of G is ΣΠ_αw_α, where the summation is taken over all circuit covers in G. We show that the characteristics polynomial of G is a special case of its circuit polynomial. Previously obtained and also new results for characteristic polynomials are easily deduced. We also derive the circuit polynomials of various classes of graphs.     

Class product and character product

For each finite group G, the product in the group ring of all the conjugacy class sums is a positive integer multiple of the sum of the elements in a special coset of the commutator subgroup G′, as Brauer and Wielandt first observed in the case G′ =  G. We show that the corresponding special element G! in A := G/G′ is the product of B! over specified subgroups B of A. Somewhat analogously, the product of all the irreducible characters of G, restricted to the center Z of G, is a multiple of a special linear character !G of Z, and !G is the product of !(Z/Y) over specified subgroups Y of Z.     

A RATIO OF INTEGRATION BETWEEN QUOTIENTS IN GEOMETRIC INVARIANT THEORY

Let T be a maximal torus of a connected reductive group G that acts linearly on a projective variety X so that all semi-stable points are stable. This paper compares the integration on the geometric invariant theory quotient X//G of Chow classes σ to the integration on the geometric invariant theory quotient X//T of certain lifts of σ twisted by c _top(g/t), the top Chern class of the T-equivariant vector bundle induced by the quotient of the adjoint representation on the Lie algebra of G by that of T. We provide a purely algebraic proof that the ratio between any two such integrals is an invariant of the group G and that it equals the order of the Weyl group whenever the root system of G decomposes into irreducible root systems of type A _n , for various $ n\in \mathbb{N} $ . As a corollary, we are able to remove this restriction on root systems by applying a related result of Martin from symplectic geometry.     

The Atiyah bundle and connections on a principal bundle

Let M be a C ^∞ manifold and G a Lie a group. Let E _G be a C ^∞ principal G-bundle over M. There is a fiber bundle C(E _G ) over M whose smooth sections correspond to the connections on E _G . The pull back of E _G to C(E _G ) has a tautological connection. We investigate the curvature of this tautological connection.     

Numerical evaluation of a fixed-amplitude variable-phase integral

We treat the evaluation of a fixed-amplitude variable-phase integral of the form $\int_a^b \exp[ikG(x)]dx $ , where G′(x)?≥?0 and has moderate differentiability in the integration interval. In particular, we treat in detail the case in which G′(a)?=?G′(b)?=?0, but G′′(a)G′′(b)?<?0. For this, we re-derive a standard asymptotic expansion in inverse half-integer inverse powers of k. This derivation is direct, making no explicit appeal to the theories of stationary phase or steepest descent. It provides straightforward expressions for the coefficients in the expansion in terms of derivatives of G at the end-points. Thus it can be used to evaluate the integrals numerically in cases where k is large. We indicate the generalizations to the theory required to cover cases where the oscillator function G has higher order zeros at either or both end-points, but this is not treated in detail. In the simpler case in which G′(a)G′(b)?>?0, the same approach would recover a special case of a recent result due to Iserles and Nørsett.     

A matrix problem over a central quadratic skew field extension

Let F⊂G=F(u) be a central quadratic skew field extension (such that the generator u is central in G) and a natural (G,G)-bimodule. We deal with the matrix problem on finding a canonical form for rectangular matrices over W with help of left elementary transformations of their rows and right elementary transformations of columns over G. We solve this problem reducing it in the separable (resp. inseparable) case to the semilinear (resp. pseudolinear) pencil problem.     

A criterion for the strongly semistable principal bundles over a curve in positive characteristic

Let X be an irreducible smooth projective curve over an algebraically closed field k of positive characteristic and G a simple linear algebraic group over k. Fix a proper parabolic subgroup P of G and a nontrivial anti-dominant character λ of P. Given a principal G-bundle E_G over X, let E_G(λ) be the line bundle over E_G/P associated to the principal P-bundle E_G→E_G/P for the character λ. We prove that E_G is strongly semistable if and only if the line bundle E_G(λ) is numerically effective. For any connected reductive algebraic group H over k, a similar criterion is proved for strongly semistable H-bundles.     

Compact quantum metric spaces and ergodic actions of compact quantum groups

We show that for any co-amenable compact quantum group A=C(G) there exists a unique compact Hausdorff topology on the set EA(G) of isomorphism classes of ergodic actions of G such that the following holds: for any continuous field of ergodic actions of G over a locally compact Hausdorff space T the map T→EA(G) sending each t in T to the isomorphism class of the fibre at t is continuous if and only if the function counting the multiplicity of γ in each fibre is continuous over T for every equivalence class γ of irreducible unitary representations of G. Generalizations for arbitrary compact quantum groups are also obtained. In the case G is a compact group, the restriction of this topology on the subset of isomorphism classes of ergodic actions of full multiplicity coincides with the topology coming from the work of Landstad and Wassermann. Podle? spheres are shown to be continuous in the natural parameter as ergodic actions of the quantum SU(2) group. We also introduce a notion of regularity for quantum metrics on G, and show how to construct a quantum metric from any ergodic action of G, starting from a regular quantum metric on G. Furthermore, we introduce a quantum Gromov-Hausdorff distance between ergodic actions of G when G is separable and show that it induces the above topology.