Voevodsky's mixed motives versus Kontsevich's noncommutative mixed motives

We prove that the quotient of Voevodsky's category of geometric mixed motives _DMgm${\mathrm{DM}}_{\mathrm{gm}}$ by the endofunctor −⊗Q(1)[2]$-\otimes \mathbb{Q}(1)[2]$ embeds fully-faithfully into Kontsevich's category of noncommutative mixed motives KMM. We show moreover that this embedding is compatible with the one between Chow motives and noncommutative Chow motives. Along the way, we relate KMM with Morel–Voevodsky's stable A¹$A^1$-homotopy category, recover the twisted algebraic K-theory of Kahn–Levine from KMM, and extend Elmendorf–Mandell's foundational work on multicategories to a broader setting.     

Morphic cohomology and singular cohomology of motives over the complex numbers

Morphic cohomology and singular cohomology of motives over the complex numbers are defined via the triangulated category of motives. Regarding morphic cohomology as functors defined on the triangulated category of motives, natural transformations of morphic cohomology are studied.     

Chow rings of excellent quadrics

In this paper we compute the multiplicative structure of the Chow ring of an excellent anisotropic quadric by using the algebraic cobordism theory.     

On the motive of certain subvarieties of fixed flags

We compute the Chow motive of certain subvarieties of the Flags manifold and show that it is an Artin motive.     

Mixed interface problems for anisotropic elastic bodies

Three-dimensional mathematical problems of the elasticity theory of anisotropic piecewise homogeneous bodies are discussed. A mixed type boundary contact problem is considered where, on one part of the interface, rigid contact conditions are give (jumps of the displacement and the stress vectors are known), while on the remaining part screen or crack type boundary conditions are imposed. The investigation is carried out by means of the potential method and the theory of pseudodifferential equations on manifolds with boundary.     

On Chow and Brauer groups of a product of Mumford curves

Let C₁,···,C_d be Mumford curves defined over a finite extension of and let X=C₁×···×C_d. We shall show the following: (1) The cycle map CH₀(X)/n → H^2d(X, μ_n^⊗d) is injective for any non-zero integer n. (2) The kernel of the canonical map CH₀(X)→Hom(Br(X),) (defined by the Brauer-Manin pairing) coincides with the maximal divisible subgroup in CH₀(X).     

Complexity of Chow varieties and number of morphisms on surfaces of general type

We provide a general estimate for the number of irreducible components of a Chow variety, the variety that parametrizes algebraic cycles of given dimension and degree contained in a projective variety. The result is then applied to obtain an upper bound for the finite number of surfaces of general type that are images of a fixed surface. Received: 29 January 1998 / Revised version: 24 June 1998     

The choice number of random bipartite graphs

A random bipartite graphG(n, n, p) is obtained by taking two disjoint subsets of verticesA andB of cardinalityn each, and by connecting each pair of verticesaA andbB by an edge randomly and independently with probabilityp=p(n). We show that the choice number ofG(n, n, p) is, almost surely, (1+o(1))log₂(np) for all values of the edge probabilityp=p(n), where theo(1) term tends to 0 asnp tends to infinity.Research supported in part by a USA-Israeli BSF grant, a grant from the Israel Science Foundation, a Sloan Foundation grant No. 96-6-2 and a State of New Jersey grant.Research supported by an IAS/DIMACS Postdoctoral Fellowship.     

An algorithm for unimodular completion over Laurent polynomial rings

We present a new and simple algorithm for completion of unimodular vectors with entries in a multivariate Laurent polynomial ring over an infinite field K. More precisely, given n?3 and a unimodular vector V=^t(v₁,…,v_n)∈Rⁿ (that is, such that 〈v₁,…,v_n〉=R), the algorithm computes a matrix M in M_n(R) whose determinant is a monomial such that MV=^t(1,0,…,0), and thus M^-1 is a completion of V to an invertible matrix.     

Determinantal varieties over truncated polynomial rings

We study components and dimensions of higher-order determinantal varieties obtained by considering generic m×n (m?n) matrices over rings of the form F[t]/(t^k), and for some fixed r, setting the coefficients of powers of t of all r×r minors to zero. These varieties can be interpreted as spaces of (k−1)th order jets over the classical determinantal varieties; a special case of these varieties first appeared in a problem in commuting matrices. We show that when r=m, the varieties are irreducible, but when r<m, these varieties are reducible. We show that when r=2<m (any k), there are exactly ⌊k/2⌋+1 components, which we determine explicitly, and for general r<m, we show there are at least ⌊k/2⌋+1 components. We also determine the components explicitly for k=2 and 3 for all values of r (for k=3 for all but finitely many pairs of (m,n)).     

On the multisummability of divergent solutions of linear partial differential equations with constant coefficients

We consider the Cauchy problem for general linear partial differential equations in two complex variables with constant coefficients. We obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for the multisummability of formal solutions in terms of analytic continuation properties and growth estimates of the Cauchy data.     

Motivic integration over Deligne-Mumford stacks

The aim of this article is to develop the theory of motivic integration over Deligne-Mumford stacks and to apply it to the birational geometry of Deligne-Mumford stacks.     

Self-dual modules over local rings of curve singularities

Let C be a reduced curve singularity. C is called of finite self-dual type if there exist only finitely many isomorphism classes of indecomposable, self-dual, torsion-free modules over the local ring of C. In this paper it is shown that the singularities of finite self-dual type are those which dominate a simple plane singularity.     

Stringy Chern classes of singular varieties

Motivic integration [M. Kontsevich, Motivic integration, Lecture at Orsay, 1995] and MacPherson's transformation [R. MacPherson, Chern classes for singular varieties, Ann. of Math. 100 (1974) 423-432] are combined in this paper to construct a theory of “stringy” Chern classes for singular varieties. These classes enjoy strong birational invariance properties, and their definition encodes data coming from resolution of singularities. The singularities allowed in the theory are those typical of the minimal model program; examples are given by quotients of manifolds by finite groups. For the latter an explicit formula is proven, assuming that the canonical line bundle of the manifold descends to the quotient. This gives an expression of the stringy Chern class of the quotient in terms of Chern-Schwartz-MacPherson classes of the fixed-point set data.     

Semi-topological K-theory for certain projective varieties

In this paper we compute Lawson homology groups and semi-topological K-theory for certain threefolds and fourfolds. We consider smooth complex projective varieties whose zero cycles are supported on a proper subvariety. Rationally connected varieties are examples of such varieties. The computation makes use of different techniques of decomposition of the diagonal cycle, of the Bloch–Kato conjecture and of the spectral sequence relating morphic cohomology and semi-topological K-theory.     

Rank-sets of indecomposable modules over one-dimensional rings

Let R be a one-dimensional, reduced Noetherian ring with finite normalization, and suppose there exists a positive integer N_R such that, for every indecomposable finitely generated torsion-free R-module M and every minimal prime ideal P of R, the dimension of M_P, as a vector space over the localization R_P (a field), is less than or equal to N_R. For a finitely generated torsion-free R-module M, we call the set of all such vector-space dimensions the rank-set of M. What subsets of the integers arise as rank-sets of indecomposable finitely generated torsion-free R-modules? In this article, we give more information on rank-sets of indecomposable modules, to supplement previous work concerning this question. In particular we provide examples having as rank-sets those intervals of consecutive integers that are not ruled out by an earlier article of Arnavut, Luckas and Wiegand. We also show that certain non-consecutive rank-sets never arise.     

Quantum cohomology of flag manifolds

We study two aspects of quantum Schubert calculus: a presentation of the (small) quantum cohomology ring of partial flag manifolds and a quantum Giambelli formula. Our proof gives a relationship between universal Schubert polynomials as defined by Fulton and quantum Schubert polynomials, as defined by Fomin, Gelfand, and Postnikov, and later extended by Ciocan-Fontanine. Intersection theory on hyperquot schemes is an essential element of the proof.