Counting generic genus- curves on Hirzebruch surfaces

Hirzebruch surfaces provide an excellent example to underline the fact that in general symplectic manifolds, Gromov-Witten invariants might well count curves in the boundary components of the moduli spaces. We use this example to explain in detail that the counting argument given by Batyrev for toric manifolds does not work.

     

Flat connections and cohomology invariants

The main goal of this article is to construct some geometric invariants for the topology of the set of flat connections on a principal G‐bundle . Although the characteristic classes of principal bundles are trivial when , their classical Chern–Weil construction can still be exploited to define a homomorphism from the set of homology classes of maps to the cohomology group , where S is null‐cobordant ‐manifold, once a G‐invariant polynomial p of degree r on is fixed. For , this gives a homomorphism . The map is shown to be globally gauge invariant and furthermore it descends to the moduli space of flat connections , modulo cohomology with integer coefficients. The construction is also adapted to complex manifolds. In this case, one works with the set of connections with vanishing (0, 2)‐part of the curvature, and the Dolbeault cohomology. Some examples and applications are presented.     

Formulae for order one invariants of immersions of surfaces

The universal order 1 invariant fU of immersions of a closed orientable surface into R³, whose existence has been established in [T. Nowik, Order one invariants of immersions of surfaces into 3-space, Math. Ann. 328 (2004) 261-283], is the direct sum

     

The degree of the variety of rational ruled surfaces and Gromov-Witten invariants

We compute the degree of the variety parametrizing rational ruled surfaces of degree in by relating the problem to Gromov-Witten invariants and Quantum cohomology.

     

Quantum cohomology of moduli spaces of genus zero stable curves

We investigate the (small) quantum cohomology ring of the moduli spaces of stable n-pointed curves of genus 0. In particular, we determine an explicit presentation in the case n = 5 and we outline a computational approach to the case n = 6. This research was partially supported by MIUR and GNSAGA of INdAM (Italy).     

Gromov-Witten invariants and quantum cohomology

This article is an elaboration of a talk given at an international conference on Operator Theory, Quantum Probability, and Noncommutative Geometry held during December 20–23, 2004, at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. The lecture was meant for a general audience, and also prospective research students, the idea of the quantum cohomology based on the Gromov-Witten invariants. Of course there are many important aspects that are not discussed here. Dedicated to Professor K B Sinha on the occasion of his 60th birthday     

An elementary invariant problem and general linear group cohomology restricted to the diagonal subgroup

Conjecturally, for an odd prime and a certain ring of -integers, the stable general linear group and the étale model for its classifying space have isomorphic mod cohomology rings. In particular, these two cohomology rings should have the same image with respect to the restriction map to the diagonal subgroup. We show that a strong unstable version of this last property holds for any rank if is regular and certain homology classes for vanish. We check that this criterion is satisfied for as evidence for the conjecture.

     

Black and white local invariants of mappings from surfaces into three-space

Goryunov proved that the space of local invariants of Vassiliev type for generic maps from surfaces to three-space is three-dimensional. The basic invariants were the number of pinch points, the number of triple points and one linked to a Rokhlin type invariant. In this paper we show that, by colouring the complement of the image of the map with a chess board pattern, we can produce a six-dimensional space of local invariants. These are essentially black and white versions of the above. Simple examples show how these are more effective. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Immersions of non-orientable surfaces

Let F be a closed non-orientable surface. We classify all finite order invariants of immersions of F into R³, with values in any Abelian group. We show they are all functions of a universal order 1 invariant which we construct as T⊕P⊕Q, where T is a Z valued invariant reflecting the number of triple points of the immersion, and P,Q are Z/2 valued invariants characterized by the property that for any regularly homotopic immersions , P(i)−P(j)∈Z/2 (respectively, Q(i)−Q(j)∈Z/2) is the number mod 2 of tangency points (respectively, quadruple points) occurring in any generic regular homotopy between i and j.For immersion and diffeomorphism such that i and i○h are regularly homotopic we show:

P(i○h)−P(i)=Q(i○h)−Q(i)=(rank(h_∗−Id)+ε(deth∗∗))mod2     

Galois structure and de Rham invariants of elliptic curves

Let K be a number field with ring of integers OK. Suppose a finite group G acts numerically tamely on a regular scheme X over OK. One can then define a de Rham invariant class in the class group Cl(OK[G]), which is a refined Euler characteristic of the de Rham complex of X. Our results concern the classification of numerically tame actions and the de Rham invariant classes. We first describe how all Galois étale G-covers of a K-variety may be built up from finite Galois extensions of K and from geometric covers. When X is a curve of positive genus, we show that a given étale action of G on X extends to a numerically tame action on a regular model if and only if this is possible on the minimal model. Finally, we characterize the classes in Cl(OK[G]) which are realizable as the de Rham invariants for minimal models of elliptic curves when G has prime order.     

Vassiliev invariants of type one for links in the solid torus

In Bataineh (2003) [2] we studied the type one invariants for knots in the solid torus. In this research we study the type one invariants for n-component links in the solid torus by generalizing Aicardi's invariant for knots in the solid torus to n-component links in the solid torus. We show that the generalized Aicardi's invariant is the universal type one invariant, and we show that the generalized Aicardi's invariant restricted to n-component links in the solid torus with zero winding number for each component is equal to an invariant we define using the universal cover of the solid torus. We also define and study a geometric invariant for n-component links in the solid torus. We give a lower bound on this invariant using the type one invariants, which are easy to calculate, which helps in computing this geometric invariant, which is usually hard to calculate.     

Isotopy invariants for smooth tori in 4-manifolds

In this paper we define invariants under smooth isotopy for certain two-dimensional knots using some refined Cerf theory. One of the invariants is the knot type of some classical knot generalizing the string number of closed braids. The other invariant is a generalization of the unique invariant of degree 1 for classical knots in 3-manifolds. Possibly, these invariants can be used to distinguish smooth embeddings of tori in some 4-manifolds but which are equivalent as topological embeddings.     

Vanishing of higher order Alexander-type invariants of plane curves

The higher order degrees are Alexander-type invariants of complements to an affine plane curve. In this paper, we characterize the vanishing of such invariants for a curve C given as a transversal union of plane curves $C^{\prime }$ and $C^{\prime \prime }$ in terms of the finiteness and the vanishing properties of the invariants of $C^{\prime }$ and $C^{\prime \prime }$, and whether or not they are irreducible. As a consequence, we prove that the multivariable Alexander polynomial ${\mathrm{\Delta }}_C^{multi}$ is a power of $(t-1)$, and we characterize when ${\mathrm{\Delta }}_C^{multi}=1$ in terms of the defining equations of $C^{\prime }$ and $C^{\prime \prime }$. Our results impose obstructions on the class of groups that can be realized as fundamental groups of complements of a transversal union of curves.     

Loop spaces and the compression theorem

For a smooth, finite-dimensional manifold with a submanifold we study the topology of the straight loop space , the space of loops whose intersections with are subject to a certain transversality condition. Our main tool is Rourke and Sanderson's compression theorem. We prove that the homotopy type of the straight loop space of a link in depends only on the number of link components.

     

Exponential sums and rigid cohomology

In this article, we prove a comparison theorem between the Dwork cohomology introduced by Adolphson and Sperber and the rigid cohomology. As a corollary, we can calculate the rigid cohomology of Dwork isocrystal on torus.     

Galois cohomology in degree 3 of function fields of curves over number fields

Let k be a field of characteristic not equal to 2. For n≥1, let denote the nth Galois Cohomology group. The classical Tate's lemma asserts that if k is a number field then given finitely many elements , there exist such that α_i=(a)∪(b_i), where for any λ∈k∗, (λ) denotes the image of k∗ in . In this paper we prove a higher dimensional analogue of the Tate's lemma.     

Thin position and essential planar surfaces

Abby Thompson proved that if a link is in thin position but not in bridge position, then the knot complement contains an essential meridional planar surface, and she asked whether some thin level surface must be essential. This note is to give a positive answer to this question, showing that if a link is in thin position but not bridge position, then a thinnest level surface is essential. A theorem of Rieck and Sedgwick follows as a consequence, which says that thin position of a connected sum of small knots comes in the obvious way.     

Groupoid cohomology and extensions

We show that Haefliger's cohomology for étale groupoids, Moore's cohomology for locally compact groups and the Brauer group of a locally compact groupoid are all particular cases of sheaf (or Cech) cohomology for topological simplicial spaces.