Orbifolds, Sheaves and Groupoids

We characterize orbifolds in terms of their sheaves, and show that orbifolds correspond exactly to a specific class of smooth groupoids. As an application, we construct fibered products of orbifolds and prove a change-of-base formula for sheaf cohomology.     

An ODE Model of the Motion of Pelagic Fish

A system of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) is derived from a discrete system of Vicsek, Czirók et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 75(6):1226–1229, 1995], describing the motion of a school of fish. Classes of linear and stationary solutions of the ODEs are found and their stability explored using equivariant bifurcation theory. The existence of periodic and toroidal solutions is also proven under deterministic perturbations and structurally stable heteroclinic connections are found. Applications of the model to the migration of the capelin, a pelagic fish that undertakes an extensive migration in the North Atlantic, are discussed and simulation of the ODEs presented.     

A localization argument for characters of reductive Lie groups

This article provides a geometric bridge between two entirely different character formulas for reductive Lie groups and answers the question posed by Schmid (in: Deformation Theory and Symplectic Geometry, Mathematical Physics Studies, Vol. 20, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1997, pp. 259-270).A corresponding problem in the compact group setting was solved by Berline et al. (Heat Kernels and Dirac Operators, Springer, Berlin, 1992) by an application of the theory of equivariant forms and particularly the fixed point integral localization formula. This article (besides its representation-theoretical significance) provides a whole family of examples where it is possible to localize integrals to fixed points with respect to an action of a noncompact group. Moreover, a localization argument given here is not specific to the particular setting considered in this article and can be extended to a more general situation.There is a broadly accessible article (Libine, A Localization Argument for Characters of Reductive Lie Groups: An Introduction and Examples, 2002, math.RT/0208024) which explains how the argument works in the case, where the key ideas are not obstructed by technical details and where it becomes clear how it extends to the general case.     

Bundles over the Fano Threefold V 5

ABSTRACT

Using an explicit resolution of the diagonal for the variety V ₅, we provide cohomological characterizations of the universal and quotient bundles. A splitting criterion for bundles over V ₅ is also proved.

The presentation of semistable aCM bundles is shown, together with a resolution–theoretic classification of low rank aCM bundles.     

Théorie de Kasparov équivariante et groupo?des I

Let be a locally compact topological groupoid, A and B two C*-algebras endowed with a continuous action of . We define an operator K-theory group K K (A,B). We describe two basic properties of this theory: the existence of a Kasparov product and functoriality with respect to groupoid cocycles.     

On the fundamental homology classes of a real algebraic variety

It is proved that there is only one relation between the homology classes determined by the real points of a special real algebraic variety. This relation is equal to the sum of all the homology classes. Translated fromMatematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 66, No. 2, pp. 216–219, August, 1999.     

Points of Bounded Height on Equivariant Compactifications of Vector Groups, I

We prove asymptotic formulas for the number of rational points of bounded height on certain equivariant compactifications of the affine plane.     

Sheaves on Involutive Quantaloids

We extend the well-known notions of a singleton, complete -set, presheaf and sheaf over a complete Heyting algebra or a right-sided idempotent quantale to arbitrary involutive quantaloids. We show that sheaves on and complete -sets come to the same thing. This paper can be considered as a symmetric version of an earlier work of the author.