Techniques of computations of Dolbeault cohomology of solvmanifolds

We consider semi-direct products ${\mathbb{C}^{n}\ltimes_{\phi}N}$ of Lie groups with lattices Γ such that N are nilpotent Lie groups with left-invariant complex structures. We compute the Dolbeault cohomology of direct sums of holomorphic line bundles over G/Γ by using the Dolbeaut cohomology of the Lie algebras of the direct product ${\mathbb{C}^{n}\times N}$ . As a corollary of this computation, we can compute the Dolbeault cohomology H ^p,q (G/Γ) of G/Γ by using a finite dimensional cochain complexes. Computing some examples, we observe that the Dolbeault cohomology varies for choices of lattices Γ.     

Hochschild Cohomology of <Emphasis Type="Italic">q</Emphasis>-Schur Algebras

We compute the Hochschild cohomology of any block of q-Schur algebras. We focus on the even part of this Hochschild cohomology ring. To compute the Hochschild cohomology of q-Schur algebras, we prove the following two results: first, we construct two graded algebra surjections between the Hochschild cohomologies of quasi-hereditary algebras because all q-Schur algebras over a field are quasi-hereditary. Second, we give the graded algebra isomorphism of Hochschild cohomologies by using a certain derive equivalence.     

The Frölicher spectral sequence can be arbitrarily non-degenerate

The Frölicher spectral sequence of a compact complex manifold X measures the difference between Dolbeault cohomology and de Rham cohomology. If X is Kähler then the spectral sequence collapses at the E ₁term and no example with d _n  ≠  0 for n > 3 has been described in the literature.We construct for n ≥  2 nilmanifolds with left-invariant complex structure X _n such that the n-th differential d _n does not vanish. This answers a question mentioned in the book of Griffiths and Harris.     

Bott–Chern cohomology of solvmanifolds

We study conditions under which sub-complexes of a double complex of vector spaces allow to compute the Bott–Chern cohomology. We are especially aimed at studying the Bott–Chern cohomology of special classes of solvmanifolds, namely, complex parallelizable solvmanifolds and solvmanifolds of splitting type. More precisely, we can construct explicit finite-dimensional double complexes that allow to compute the Bott–Chern cohomology of compact quotients of complex Lie groups, respectively, of some Lie groups of the type \(\mathbb {C}^n\ltimes _\varphi N\) where N is nilpotent. As an application, we compute the Bott–Chern cohomology of the complex parallelizable Nakamura manifold and of the completely solvable Nakamura manifold. In particular, the latter shows that the property of satisfying the \(\partial \overline{\partial }\)-Lemma is not strongly closed under deformations of the complex structure.     

Expanding curves in T1(Hn) under geodesic flow and equidistribution in homogeneous spaces

Let H = SO(n, 1) and A = {a(t): t ∈ R} be a maximal R-split Cartan subgroup of H. Let G be a Lie group containing H and Γ be a lattice of G. Let φ = gΓ ∈ G/Γ be a point of G/Γ such that its H-orbit Hx is dense in G/Γ. Let φ: I = [a, b] → H be an analytic curve. Then φ(I)x gives an analytic curve in G/Γ. In this article, we will prove the following result: if φ(I) satisfies some explicit geometric condition, then a(t)φ(I)x tends to be equidistributed in G/Γ as t → ∞. It answers the first question asked by Shah in [Sha09c] and generalizes the main result of that paper.     

On the second cohomology of an algebraic group and of its lie algebra in a positive characteristic

Necessary and sufficient isomorphism conditions for the second cohomology group of an algebraic group with an irreducible root system over an algebraically closed field of characteristic p ≥ 3h ? 3, where h stands for the Coxeter number, and the corresponding second cohomology group of its Lie algebra with coefficients in simple modules are obtained, and also some nontrivial examples of isomorphisms of the second cohomology groups of simple modules are found. In particular, it follows from the results obtained here that, among the simple algebraic groups SL₂(k), SL₃(k), SL₄(k), Sp₄(k), and G ₂, nontrivial isomorphisms of this kind exist for SL₄(k) and G ₂ only. For SL₄(k), there are two simple modules with nontrivial second cohomology and, for G ₂, there is one module of this kind. All nontrivial examples of second cohomology obtained here are one-dimensional.     

Lie bialgebra structures on derivation Lie algebra over quantum tori

We investigate Lie bialgebra structures on the derivation Lie algebra over the quantum torus. It is proved that, for the derivation Lie algebra W over a rank 2 quantum torus, all Lie bialgebra structures on W are the coboundary triangular Lie bialgebras. As a by-product, it is also proved that the first cohomology group H ¹(W, W ? W) is trivial.     

Schur multipliers and the Lazard correspondence

Let G be a finite p-group of nilpotency class less than p?1, and let L be the Lie ring corresponding to G via the Lazard correspondence. We show that the Schur multipliers of G and L are isomorphic as abelian groups and that every Schur cover of G is in Lazard correspondence with a Schur cover of L. Further, we show that the epicenters of G and L are isomorphic as abelian groups. Thus the group G is capable if and only if the Lie ring L is capable.     

Einstein solvmanifolds: existence and non-existence questions

The aim of this paper is to study the problem of which solvable Lie groups admit an Einstein left invariant metric. The space \({\mathcal{N}}\) of all nilpotent Lie brackets on \({\mathbb{R}^n}\) parametrizes a set of (n + 1)-dimensional rank-one solvmanifolds \({\{S_{\mu}:\mu\in\mathcal{N}\}}\), containing the set of all those which are Einstein in that dimension. The moment map for the natural GL _n -action on \({\mathcal{N}}\), evaluated at \({\mu\in\mathcal{N}}\), encodes geometric information on S _μ and suggests the use of strong results from geometric invariant theory. For instance, the functional on \({\mathcal{N}}\) whose critical points are precisely the Einstein S _μ ’s, is the square norm of this moment map. We use a GL _n -invariant stratification for the space \({\mathcal{N}}\) and show that there is a strong interplay between the strata and the Einstein condition on the solvmanifolds S _μ . As an application, we obtain criteria to decide whether a given nilpotent Lie algebra can be the nilradical of a rank-one Einstein solvmanifold or not. We find several examples of \({\mathbb{N}}\)-graded (even 2-step) nilpotent Lie algebras which are not. A classification in the 7-dimensional, 6-step case and an existence result for certain 2-step algebras associated to graphs are also given.     

Equivariant cohomology and localization for Lie algebroids

Let M be a manifold carrying the action of a Lie group G, and let A be a Lie algebroid on M equipped with a compatible infinitesimal G-action. Using these data, we construct an equivariant cohomology of A and prove a related localization formula for the case of compact G. By way of application, we prove an analog of the Bott formula.     

Bredon cohomology of cyclic geometric realization of<Emphasis Type="Italic">G</Emphasis>-cyclic sets

We define equivariant cyclic and Hochschild cohomology modules of a cyclic objectX in the category ofG-sets and relate them with the Bredon cohomologies of the cyclic geometric realization ¦X¦^cy.     

On coset-spaces of compact Lie groups by subgroups of corank 2

Let G be a simple compact connected simply connected Lie group, H its connected Lie subgroup of corank 2 which coincides with the commutator group of the centralizer of a torus, and let Sam(G/H) = 0. We prove that if a compact connected simply connected Lie group G' acts transitively and locally effectively on the manifold G/H, then G' is isomorphic to G. if the root system of G consists of roots of the same length, then the action of G' on G/H is similar to the action of G.     

Cyclic cohomology of certain nuclear Fréchet algebras and DF algebras

We give explicit formulae for the continuous Hochschild and cyclic homology and cohomology of certain \(\hat \otimes\)-algebras. We use well-developed homological techniques together with some niceties of the theory of locally convex spaces to generalize the results known in the case of Banach algebras and their inverse limits to wider classes of topological algebras. To this end we show that, for a continuous morphism ?: x → y of complexes of complete nuclear DF-spaces, the isomorphism of cohomology groups H ⁿ(?): H ⁿ (x) → H ⁿ (y) is automatically topological. The continuous cyclic-type homology and cohomology are described up to topological isomorphism for the following classes of biprojective \(\hat \otimes\)-algebras: the tensor algebra E \(\hat \otimes\) F generated by the duality (E,F,<·,·>) for nuclear Fréchet spaces E and F or for nuclear DF-spaces E and F; nuclear biprojective Köthe algebras λ(P) which are Fréchet spaces or DF-spaces; the algebra of distributions ε^*(G) on a compact Lie group G.     

Bounded differential forms,generalized Milnor–Wood inequality and an application to deformation rigidity

We establish sufficient conditions for a cohomology class of a discrete subgroup Γ of a connected semisimple Lie group with finite center to be representable by a bounded differential form on the quotient by Γ of the associated symmetric space; furthermore if \(\rho : \Gamma\to\mathrm{PU}(1,q)\) is any representation of any discrete subgroup Γ of SU (1, p), we give an explicit closed bounded differential form on the quotient by Γ of complex hyperbolic space which is a representative for the pullback via ρ of the Kähler class of PU(1,q). If G,G′ are Lie groups of Hermitian type, we generalize to representations \(\rho : \Gamma\to G'\) of lattices Γ < G the invariant defined in [Burger, M., Iozzi, A.: Bounded cohomology and representation variates in PU (1,n). Preprint announcement, April 2000] for which we establish a Milnor–Wood type inequality. As an application we study maximal representations into PU(1, q) of lattices in SU(1,1).     

A Note on Graded Lie <Emphasis Type="Italic">H</Emphasis>-Pseudo-Bialgebras

We study the cohomology theory of graded Lie H-pseudoalgebras. Furthermore, using the differential of a 1-cochain in the reduced complex of graded Lie H-pseudoalgebras, we define the notion of graded Lie H-pseudobialgebras. The coboundary graded Lie H-pseudo-bialgebras and related CYBE theory are also considered.     

ABELIAN BALANCED HERMITIAN STRUCTURES ON UNIMODULAR LIE ALGEBRAS

Let g be a 2n-dimensional unimodular Lie algebra equipped with a Hermitian structure (J; F) such that the complex structure J is abelian and the fundamental form F is balanced. We prove that the holonomy group of the associated Bismut connection reduces to a subgroup of SU(n – k), being 2k the dimension of the center of g. We determine conditions that allow a unimodular Lie algebra to admit this particular type of structures. Moreover, we give methods to construct them in arbitrary dimensions and classify them if the Lie algebra is 8-dimensional and nilpotent.     

A geometric criterion for the boundedness of characteristic classes

We show that for a connected Lie group G, the linearity of its radical \({\sqrt G}\) (that is of its biggest connected normal solvable subgroup), is a necessary and sufficient condition for the boundedness of all Borel cohomology classes of G with integer coefficients, and that the linearity of \({\sqrt G}\) is also equivalent to a large-scale geometric property of G (involving distortion).     

The algebra of Calderón-Zygmund kernels on a homogeneous group is inverse-closed

We show that the subalgebra of convolution operators with Calderón-Zygmund kernels on a homogeneous group G is inverse-closed in the algebra of all bounded linear operators on the Hilbert space L ²(G). The main tool used is a symbolic calculus, where the convolution of distributions on the group is translated via the abelian Fourier transform into a “twisted product” of symbols on the dual to the Lie algebra g of G.     

On Einstein extensions of nilpotent metric Lie algebras

The main result of the article is as follows: If a nilpotent noncommutative metric Lie algebra (n, Q) is such that the operator Id ? trace(Ric) / trace(Ric²) Ric is positive definite then every Einstein solvable extension of (n, Q) is standard. We deduce several consequences of this assertion. In particular, we prove that all Einstein solvmanifolds of dimension at most 7 are standard.     

Superization of homogeneous spin manifolds and geometry of homogeneous supermanifolds

Let M ₀=G ₀/H be a (pseudo)-Riemannian homogeneous spin manifold, with reductive decomposition \(\mathfrak {g}_{0}=\mathfrak {h}+\mathfrak {m}\) and let S(M ₀) be the spin bundle defined by the spin representation \(\tilde{ \operatorname {Ad}}:H\rightarrow \mathrm {GL}_{\mathbb {R}}(S)\) of the stabilizer H. This article studies the superizations of M ₀, i.e. its extensions to a homogeneous supermanifold M=G/H whose sheaf of superfunctions is isomorphic to the sheaf of sections of Λ(S ^*(M ₀)). Here G is the Lie supergroup associated with a certain extension of the Lie algebra of symmetry \(\mathfrak {g}_{0}\) to an algebra of supersymmetry \(\mathfrak {g}=\mathfrak {g}_{\overline {0}}+\mathfrak {g}_{\overline {1}}=\mathfrak {g}_{0}+S\) via the Kostant-Koszul construction. Each algebra of supersymmetry naturally determines a flat connection \(\nabla^{\mathcal {S}}\) in the spin bundle S(M ₀). Killing vectors together with generalized Killing spinors (i.e. \(\nabla^{\mathcal {S}}\)-parallel spinors) are interpreted as the values of appropriate geometric symmetries of M, namely even and odd Killing fields. An explicit formula for the Killing representation of the algebra of supersymmetry is obtained, generalizing some results of Koszul. The generalized spin connection \(\nabla^{\mathcal {S}}\) defines a superconnection on M, via the super-version of a theorem of Wang.