On the topology of foliations with a first integral

The main objective of this article is to study the topology of the fibers of a generic rational function of the type in the projective space of dimension two. We will prove that the action of the monodromy group on a single Lefschetz vanishing cycle generates the first homology group of a generic fiber of . In particular, we will prove that for any two Lefschetz vanishing cycles ₀ and ₁ in a regular compact fiber of , there exists a mondromyh such thath( ₀)=± ₁.Partially supported by CNPq-Brazil.     

Modelling of α-lactalbumin from the known structure of hen egg white lysozyme using molecular dynamics

Summary The prediction of protein conformation by homology is being widely pursued using interactive computer graphics. However, there have been a limited number of energy minimization and/or molecular dynamics studies for such predictions. This paper reports one such study on -lactalbumin, a system that can be tested as the X-ray crystal structure has recently been determined. The differences in structure of the Ca²⁺ binding loop reported for the holo-protein (Stuart et al., Nature, 324 [1986] 84–87) and that predicted for the apoprotein could be attributed to the presence or absence of the Ca²⁺ ion.     

Formality Conjectures and Deformation

Let M be a Poisson manifold. Kontsevich proved that star products exist on M and he gave a classification. To relate his classification with other classifications, one could try to extend the Connes–Flato–Sternheimer invariant to a general Poisson manifold. We show how generalization of this invariant is related to the formality conjecture for chains. Finally, we show how to prove those conjectures step by step. Our approach, different from Tamarkin's, will give explicit formulas but doesn't yet solve the general conjecture.     

A Delocalization Property for Assembly Maps and an Application in Algebraic K-Theory of Group Rings

Let be a group, F the free -module on the set of finite order elements in , with acting by conjugation, and the ring extension of by % MathType!MTEF!2!1!+-% feaafiart1ev1aaatCvAUfeBSjuyZL2yd9gzLbvyNv2CaerbuLwBLn% hiov2DGi1BTfMBaeXatLxBI9gBaerbd9wDYLwzYbItLDharqqtubsr% 4rNCHbGeaGqiVu0Je9sqqrpepC0xbbL8F4rqqrFfpeea0xe9Lq-Jc9% vqaqpepm0xbba9pwe9Q8fs0-yqaqpepae9pg0FirpepeKkFr0xfr-x% fr-xb9adbaqaaeaacaGaaiaabeqaamaabaabaaGcbaWaaiWaaeaada% WcaaqaaiaaigdaaeaatCvAUfKttLearyGqLXgBG0evaGqbciab-5ga% UbaaieaacaGFLbGaaGOmaiaabc8acqWFPbqAcaqGVaGae8NBa42aaq% qaaeaacqGHdicjcqaHZoWzcqGHiiIZcqqHtoWrcaqGGaGaae4Baiaa% bAgacaqGGaGaae4BaiaabkhacaqGKbGaaeyzaiaabkhacaqGGaGae8% NBa4gacaGLhWoaaiaawUhacaGL9baaaaa!563E!\[\left\{ {\frac{1}{n}e2{\text{\pi }}i{\text{/}}n\left| {\exists \gamma \in \Gamma {\text{ of order }}n} \right.} \right\}\]. For a ring R with , we build an injective assembly map , detected by the Dennis trace map. This is proved by establishing a delocalization property for the assembly map in Hochschild homology, namely providing a gluing of simpler assembly maps (i.e. localized at the identity of ) to build , and by delocalizing a known assembly map in K-theory to define . We also prove the delocalization property in cyclic homology and in related theories.     

Spectral Sequences on Combinatorial Simplicial Complexes

The goal of this paper is twofold. First, we give an elementary introduction to the usage of spectral sequences in the combinatorial setting. Second we list a number of applications.In the first group of applications the simplicial complex is the nerve of a poset; we consider general posets and lattices, as well as partition-type posets. Our last application is of a different nature: the -quotient of the complex of directed forests is a simplicial complex whose cell structure is defined combinatorially.     

Realizing Operadic Plus-constructions as Nullifications

In this paper we generalize the plus-construction given by M. Livernet for algebras over rational differential graded operads to the framework of cofibrant operads over an arbitrary ring (the category of algebras over such operads admits a closed model category structure). We follow the modern approach of J. Berrick and C. Casacuberta defining topological plus-construction as a nullification with respect to a universal acyclic space. We construct a universalH _*^Q-acyclic algebra and we define A A⁺ as the -nullification of the algebra A. This map induces an isomorphism in Quillen homology and quotients out the maximal perfect ideal of _0(A). As an application, we consider for any associative algebra R the plus-constructions of gl(R) in the categories of homotopy Lie and homotopy Leibniz algebras. This gives rise to two new homology theories for associative algebras, namely homotopy cyclic and homotopy Hochschild homologies. Over the rationals these theories coincide with the classical cyclic and Hochschild homologies.Primary: 19D06, 19D55; Secondary: 18D50, 18G55, 55P60, 55U35Received March 2003     

A linear function associated to asymptotic prime divisors

Let be a Noetherian standard -graded ring and finitely generated, -graded -modules. Let be finitely many homogeneous ideals of . We show that there exist linear functions such that the associated primes over of and are stable whenever satisfies and , respectively.

     

Koszul homology and extremal properties of Gin and Lex

For every homogeneous ideal in a polynomial ring and for every we consider the Koszul homology with respect to a sequence of of generic linear forms. The Koszul-Betti number is, by definition, the dimension of the degree part of . In characteristic , we show that the Koszul-Betti numbers of any ideal are bounded above by those of the gin-revlex of and also by those of the Lex-segment of . We show that iff is componentwise linear and that and iff is Gotzmann. We also investigate the set of all the gin of and show that the Koszul-Betti numbers of any ideal in are bounded below by those of the gin-revlex of . On the other hand, we present examples showing that in general there is no is such that the Koszul-Betti numbers of any ideal in are bounded above by those of .

     

Hochschild homology criteria for trivial algebra structures

We prove two similar results by quite different methods. The first one deals with augmented artinian algebras over a field: we characterize the trivial algebra structure on the augmentation ideal in terms of the maximality of the dimensions of the Hochschild homology (or cyclic homology) groups. For the second result, let be a 1-connected finite CW-complex. We characterize the trivial algebra structure on the cohomology algebra of with coefficients in a fixed field in terms of the maximality of the Betti numbers of the free loop space.