We prove that entire and periodic cyclic cohomology satisfy excision for extensions of bornological algebras with a bounded linear section. That is, for such an extension we obtain a six term exact sequence in cohomology.

The product of two Schubert classes in the quantum $K$-theory ring of a homogeneous space $X=G/P$ is a formal power series with coefficients in the Grothendieck ring of algebraic vector bundles on $X$. We show that if $X$ is cominuscule, then this power series has only finitely many non-zero terms. The proof is based on a geometric study of boundary Gromov-Witten varieties in the Kontsevich moduli space, consisting of stable maps to $X$ that take the marked points to general Schubert varieties and whose domains...

The relationship between fixed point theory and K-theory is explained, both classical Nielsen theory (versus $K_0$) and 1-parameter fixed point theory (versus $K_1$). In particular, various zeta functions associated with suspension flows are shown to come in a natural way as “traces” of “torsions” of Whitehead and Reidemeister type.

Let $K$ be a compact Lie group acting in a Hamiltonian way on a symplectic manifold $(M,\Omega )$ which is pre-quantized by a Kostant-Souriau line bundle. We suppose here that the moment map $\Phi$ is proper so that the reduced space $M_{\mu }:={\Phi }^{-1}(K·\mu )/K$ is compact for all $\mu$. Then, we can define the “formal geometric quantization” of $M$ as$${𝒬}_K^{-\infty }\left(M\right):=\sum _{\mu \in \widehat{K}}𝒬\left(M_{\mu }\right)V_{\mu }^K.$$The aim of this article is to study the functorial properties of the assignment $(M,K)\to {𝒬}_K^{-\infty }\left(M\right)$.

Introduite par Witt en 1937, la théorie des formes quadratiques sur un corps joue un rôle central dans la démonstration des conjectures de Milnor par Voevodsky via les travaux pionniers de Rost qui y interviennent. Réciproquement, les méthodes de Rost et Voevodsky utilisant la théorie des motifs et les opérations de Steenrod motiviques révolutionnent la théorie des formes quadratiques et ont conduit à la démonstration de résultats de base qui semblaient auparavant inaccessibles. On expliquera notamment...

Dans cet article on donne une formule explicite pour le caractère de Chern reliant la $K$- théorie algébrique et l’homologie cyclique négative. On calcule le caractère de Chern des symboles de Steinberg et de Loday et on donne une preuve élémentaire du fait que le caractère de Chern est multiplicatif.

The main results of this paper may be loosely stated as follows.Theorem.— Let $N$ and $N^{\text{'}}$ be sums of Galois algebras with group $\Gamma$ over algebraic number fields. Suppose that $N$ and $N^{\text{'}}$ have the same dimension $\mathbb{Q}$ and that they are identical at their wildly ramified primes. Then (writing ${𝒪}_N$ for the maximal order in $N$)$${𝒪}_N\oplus {𝒪}_N\oplus \mathbb{Z}\Gamma {\cong }_{\mathbb{Z}\Gamma }\oplus {𝒪}_N^{\text{'}}\oplus {𝒪}_{N^{\text{'}}}\oplus \mathbb{Z}\Gamma .$$In many cases ${𝒪}_N{\cong }_{\mathbb{Z}\Gamma }{𝒪}_{N^{\text{'}}}.$The role played by the root numbers of $N$ and $N^{\text{'}}$ at the symplectic characters of $\Gamma$ in determining the relationship between the $\mathbb{Z}\Gamma$-modules ${𝒪}_N$ and ${𝒪}_{N^{\text{'}}}$ is described. The theorem includes...