Let $M$ be any compact simply-connected oriented $d$-dimensional smooth manifold and let $𝔽$ be any field. We show that the Gerstenhaber algebra structure on the Hochschild cohomology on the singular cochains of $M$, $H{H}^{*}(S^{*}\left(M\right),S^{*}\left(M\right))$, extends to a Batalin-Vilkovisky algebra. Such Batalin-Vilkovisky algebra was conjectured to exist and is expected to be isomorphic to the Batalin-Vilkovisky algebra on the free loop space homology on $M$, $H_{*+d}\left(LM\right)$ introduced by Chas and Sullivan. We also show that the negative cyclic...

We use known results on the characteristic rank of the canonical $4$–plane bundle over the oriented Grassmann manifold ${\tilde{G}}_{n,4}$ to compute the generators of the ${\mathbb{Z}}_2$–cohomology groups $H^j\left({\tilde{G}}_{n,4}\right)$ for $n=8,9,10,11$. Drawing from the similarities of these examples with the general description of the cohomology rings of ${\tilde{G}}_{n,3}$ we conjecture some predictions.

We give a review of our construction of a cohomological field theory for quasi-homogeneous singularities and the $r$-spin theory of Jarvis-Kimura-Vaintrob. We further prove that for a singularity $W$ of type $A$ our construction of the stack of $W$-curves is canonically isomorphic to the stack of $r$-spin curves described by Abramovich and Jarvis. We further prove that our theory satisfies all the Jarvis-Kimura-Vaintrob axioms for an $r$-spin virtual class. Therefore, the Faber-Shadrin-Zvonkine...

In this work we compute the Chen–Ruan cohomology of the moduli spaces of smooth and stable $n$-pointed curves of genus $1$. In the first part of the paper we study and describe stack theoretically the twisted sectors of ${ℳ}_{1,n}$ and ${\overline{ℳ}}_{1,n}$. In the second part, we study the orbifold intersection theory of ${\overline{ℳ}}_{1,n}$. We suggest a definition for an orbifold tautological ring in genus $1$, which is a subring of both the Chen–Ruan cohomology and of the stringy Chow ring.

The relative cohomology ${\mathrm{H}}_{\mathrm{diff}}^1(𝕂\left(1\right|3),\mathrm{𝔬𝔰𝔭}(2,3);{𝒟}_{\lambda ,\mu }\left(S^{1|3}\right))$ of the contact Lie superalgebra $𝕂\left(1\right|3)$ with coefficients in the space of differential operators ${𝒟}_{\lambda ,\mu }\left(S^{1|3}\right)$ acting on tensor densities on $S^{1|3}$, is calculated in N. Ben Fraj, I. Laraied, S. Omri (2013) and the generating $1$-cocycles are expressed in terms of the infinitesimal super-Schwarzian derivative $1$-cocycle $s\left(X_f\right)=D_1{D}_2{D}_3\left(f\right){\alpha }_3^{1/2}$, $X_f\in 𝕂\left(1\right|3)$ which is invariant with respect to the conformal subsuperalgebra $\mathrm{𝔬𝔰𝔭}(2,3)$ of $𝕂\left(1\right|3)$. In this work we study the supergroup case. We give an explicit construction of $1$-cocycles...

We consider non-interacting particles subject to a fixed external potential $V$ and a self-generated magnetic field $B$. The total energy includes the field energy $\beta \int B^2$ and we minimize over all particle states and magnetic fields. In the case of spin-1/2 particles this minimization leads to the coupled Maxwell-Pauli system. The parameter $\beta$ tunes the coupling strength between the field and the particles and it effectively determines the strength of the field. We investigate the stability and...

The goal of this work is to construct, for a smooth variety $X$ over a perfect field k of finite characteristic $p\>0$, an overconvergent de Rham-Witt complex $W^{†}{\Omega }_{X/k}$ as a suitable subcomplex of the de Rham-Witt complex of Deligne-Illusie. This complex, which is functorial in $X$, is a complex of étale sheaves and a differential graded algebra over the ring $W^{†}\left({𝒪}_X\right)$ of overconvergent Witt-vectors. If $X$ is affine one proves that there is an isomorphism between Monsky-Washnitzer cohomology and (rational) overconvergent...

For $\varphi$ a normalized positive definite function on a locally compact abelian group $G$, let ${\pi }_{\varphi }$ be the unitary representation associated to $\varphi$ by the GNS construction. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for the vanishing of 1-cohomology $H^1(G,{\pi }_{\varphi })$ and reduced 1-cohomology ${\overline{H}}^1(G,{\pi }_{\varphi })$. For example, ${\overline{H}}^1(G,{\pi }_{\varphi })=0$ if and only if either $\text{Hom}(G,ℂ)=0$ or ${\mu }_{\varphi }\left(1_G\right)=0$, where $1_G$ is the trivial character of $G$ and ${\mu }_{\varphi }$ is the probability measure on the Pontryagin dual $\widehat{G}$ associated to $\varphi$ by Bochner’s Theorem. This streamlines an argument of Guichardet...

The quon algebra is an approach to particle statistics in order to provide a theory in which the Pauli exclusion principle and Bose statistics are violated by a small amount. The quons are particles whose annihilation and creation operators obey the quon algebra which interpolates between fermions and bosons. In this paper we generalize these models by introducing a deformation of the quon algebra generated by a collection of operators $a_{i,k}$, $(i,k)\in {\mathbb{N}}^{*}\times \left[m\right]$, on an infinite dimensional vector space satisfying...

Let $G$ be a split semisimple linear algebraic group over a field and let $T$ be a split maximal torus of $G$. Let $𝗁$ be an oriented cohomology (algebraic cobordism, connective $K$-theory, Chow groups, Grothendieck’s $K_0$, etc.) with formal group law $F$. We construct a ring from $F$ and the characters of $T$, that we call a formal group ring, and we define a characteristic ring morphism $c$ from this formal group ring to $𝗁(G/B)$ where $G/B$ is the variety of Borel subgroups of $G$. Our main result says that when the...

The aim of this paper is to extend the framework of the spectral method for proving property (T) to the class of reflexive Banach spaces and present a condition implying that every affine isometric action of a given group $G$ on a reflexive Banach space $X$ has a fixed point. This last property is a strong version of Kazhdan’s property (T) and is equivalent to the fact that $H^1(G,\pi )=0$ for every isometric representation $\pi$ of $G$ on $X$. The condition is expressed in terms of $p$-Poincaré constants and we...

Let $(R,𝔪)$ be a commutative Noetherian local ring, $𝔞$ be an ideal of $R$ and $M$ a finitely generated $R$-module such that $𝔞M\ne M$ and $\mathrm{cd}(𝔞,M)-\mathrm{grade}(𝔞,M)\le 1$, where $\mathrm{cd}(𝔞,M)$ is the cohomological dimension of $M$ with respect to $𝔞$ and $\mathrm{grade}(𝔞,M)$ is the $M$-grade of $𝔞$. Let $D(-):={\mathrm{Hom}}_R(-,E)$ be the Matlis dual functor, where $E:=E(R/𝔪)$ is the injective hull of the residue field $R/𝔪$. We show that there exists the following long exact sequence $$\begin{array}{cc}\hfill 0⟶& H_{𝔞}^{n-2}\left(D\left(H_{𝔞}^{n-1}\left(M\right)\right)\right)⟶H_{𝔞}^n\left(D\left(H_{𝔞}^n\left(M\right)\right)\right)⟶D\left(M\right)\\ \hfill ⟶& H_{𝔞}^{n-1}\left(D\left(H_{𝔞}^{n-1}\left(M\right)\right)\right)⟶H_{𝔞}^{n+1}\left(D\left(H_{𝔞}^n\left(M\right)\right)\right)\\ \hfill ⟶& H_{𝔞}^n\left(D\left(H_{(x_1,...,x_{n-1})}^{n-1}\left(M\right)\right)\right)⟶H_{𝔞}^n\left(D\left(H_{(}^{n-1}M\right)\right))⟶...,\end{array}$$ where $n:=\mathrm{cd}(𝔞,M)$ is a non-negative integer, $x_1,...,x_{n-1}$ is a regular sequence in $𝔞$ on $M$ and, for an $R$-module $L$, $H_{𝔞}^i\left(L\right)$ is the $i$th local cohomology module...

Let $X$ be an arbitrary hyperbolic geodesic metric space and let $\Gamma$ be a countable subgroup of the isometry group $\mathrm{Iso}\left(X\right)$ of $X$. We show that if $\Gamma$ is non-elementary and weakly acylindrical (this is a weak properness condition) then the second bounded cohomology groups $H_b^2(\Gamma ,ℝ)$, $H_b^2(\Gamma ,{\ell }^p\left(\Gamma \right))$ $(1<p<\infty )$ are infinite dimensional. Our result holds for example for any subgroup of the mapping class group of a non-exceptional surface of finite type not containing a normal subgroup which virtually splits as a direct...

The class of loop spaces of which the mod $p$ cohomology is Noetherian is much larger than the class of $p$-compact groups (for which the mod $p$ cohomology is required to be finite). It contains Eilenberg–Mac Lane spaces such as $ℂP^{\infty }$ and 3-connected covers of compact Lie groups. We study the cohomology of the classifying space $BX$ of such an object and prove it is as small as expected, that is, comparable to that of $BℂP^{\infty }$. We also show that $B$X differs basically from the classifying space of a $p$-compact...

Let $R$ be a Noetherian ring, and $I$ and $J$ be two ideals of $R$. Let $S$ be a Serre subcategory of the category of $R$-modules satisfying the condition $C_I$ and $M$ be a $ZD$-module. As a generalization of the $S$-$\mathrm{depth}(I,M)$ and $\mathrm{depth}(I,J,M)$, the $S$-$\mathrm{depth}$ of $(I,J)$ on $M$ is defined as $S$-$\mathrm{depth}(I,J,M)=inf\{S$-$\mathrm{depth}(𝔞,M):𝔞\in \tilde{\mathrm{W}}(I,J)\}$, and some properties of this concept are investigated. The relations between $S$-$\mathrm{depth}(I,J,M)$ and $H_{I,J}^i\left(M\right)$ are studied, and it is proved that $S$-$\mathrm{depth}(I,J,M)=inf\{i:H_{I,J}^i\left(M\right)\notin S\}$, where $S$ is a Serre subcategory closed under taking injective hulls. Some conditions are provided that local cohomology...

Let $𝔞$, $I$, $J$ be ideals of a Noetherian local ring $(R,𝔪,k)$. Let $M$ and $N$ be finitely generated $R$-modules. We give a generalized version of the Duality Theorem for Cohen-Macaulay rings using local cohomology defined by a pair of ideals. We study the behavior of the endomorphism rings of $H_{I,J}^t\left(M\right)$ and $D\left(H_{I,J}^t\left(M\right)\right)$, where $t$ is the smallest integer such that the local cohomology with respect to a pair of ideals is nonzero and $D(-):={\mathrm{Hom}}_R(-,E_R\left(k\right))$ is the Matlis dual functor. We show that if $R$ is a $d$-dimensional complete Cohen-Macaulay...

We consider the 3D quantum BBGKY hierarchy which corresponds to the $N$-particle Schrödinger equation. We assume the pair interaction is $N^{3\beta –1}V\left(B^{\beta }\right)$. For the interaction parameter $\beta \in (0,2/3)$, we prove that, provided an energy bound holds for solutions to the BBKGY hierarchy, the $N\to \infty$ limit points satisfy the space-time bound conjectured by S. Klainerman and M. Machedon [45] in 2008. The energy bound was proven to hold for $\beta \in (0,3/5)$ in [28]. This allows, in the case $\beta \in (0,3/5)$, for the application of the Klainerman–Machedon...