Torsion in K2 of fields and 0-cycles on rational surfaces.
Classes dual to Schubert cycles constitute a basis on the cohomology ring of the flag manifold F, self-adjoint up to indexation with respect to the intersection form. Here, we study the bilinear form (X,Y) :=〈X·Y, c(F)〉 where X,Y are cocycles, c(F) is the total Chern class of F and〈,〉 is the intersection form. This form is related to a twisted action of the symmetric group of the cohomology ring, and to the degenerate affine Hecke algebra. We give a distinguished basis for this form, which is a...
Let be a normal projective variety, and let be an ample Cartier divisor on . Suppose that is not the projective space. We prove that the twisted cotangent sheaf is generically nef with respect to the polarisation . As an application we prove a Kobayashi-Ochiai theorem for foliations: if is a foliation such that , then is at most the rank of .