A complete characterization of the Łojasiewicz exponent at infinity for polynomial mappings of ℂ² into ℂ² is given. Moreover, a characterization of a component of a polynomial automorphism of ℂ² (in terms of the Łojasiewicz exponent at infinity) is given.
In this paper, we show that if and are algebraic real hypersurfaces in (possibly different) complex spaces of dimension at least two and if is a holomorphic mapping defined near a neighborhood of so that , then is also algebraic. Our proof is based on a careful analysis on the invariant varieties and reduces to the consideration of many cases. After a slight modification, the argument is also used to prove a reflection principle, which allows our main result to be stated for mappings...
We take another approach to Hitchin’s strategy of computing the cohomology of moduli spaces of Higgs bundles by localization with respect to the circle action. Our computation is done in the dimensional completion of the Grothendieck ring of varieties and starts by describing the classes of moduli stacks of chains rather than their coarse moduli spaces. As an application we show that the -torsion of the Jacobian acts trivially on the middle dimensional cohomology of the moduli space of twisted...
In 2001, motivated by his results on finite-type knot diagram invariants, Östlund conjectured that Reidemeister moves 1 and 3 are sufficient to describe a homotopy from any generic immersion S¹ → ℝ² to the standard embedding of the circle. We show that this conjecture is false.