The multipliers of similitudes and the Brauer group of homogeneous varieties.
The Mumford Conjecture asserts that the rational cohomology of the stable moduli space of Riemann surfaces is a polynomial algebra on the Mumford-Morita-Miller characteristic classes; this can be reformulated in terms of the classifying space derived from the mapping class groups. The conjecture admits a topological generalization, inspired by Tillmann’s theorem that admits an infinite loop space structure after applying Quillen’s plus construction. The text presents the proof by Madsen and...
In this paper we study the structure and the degeneracies of the Mumford-Tate group of a 1-motive defined over . This group is an algebraic - group acting on the Hodge realization of and endowed with an increasing filtration . We prove that the unipotent radical of , which is , injects into a “generalized” Heisenberg group. We then explain how to reduce to the study of the Mumford-Tate group of a direct sum of 1-motives whose torus’character group and whose lattice are both of rank 1....
This paper deals with the Nash problem, which consists in comparing the number of families of arcs on a singular germ of surface with the number of essential components of the exceptional divisor in the minimal resolution of this singularity. We prove their equality in the case of the rational double points ().
It is a classical result, first established by de Jonquières (1859), that generically the number of conics tangent to 5 given conics in the complex projective plane is 3264. We show here the existence of configurations of 5 real conics such that the number of real conics tangent to them is 3264.