Braid Orientations and Bundles with Flat Connections.
DI(4) is the only known example of an exotic 2-compact group, and is conjectured to be the only one. In this work, we study generalized cohomology theories for DI(4) and its classifying space. Specifically, we compute the Morava K-theories, and the P(n)-cohomology of DI(4). We use the non-commutativity of the spectrum P(n) at p=2 to prove the non-homotopy nilpotency of DI(4). Concerning the classifying space, we prove that the BP-cohomology and the Morava K-theories of BDI(4) are all concentrated...
La conférence de J. P. Brasselet au Symposium de Varsovie a eu pour thème les problèmes actuels de l’homologie d’intersection. Nous en présentons ici l’un des aspects, résultat d’un travail commun réalisé dans le cadre du programme Procope et pendant lequel le second auteur a été chercheur associé au CNRS.
In this work we compute the Chen–Ruan cohomology of the moduli spaces of smooth and stable -pointed curves of genus . In the first part of the paper we study and describe stack theoretically the twisted sectors of and . In the second part, we study the orbifold intersection theory of . We suggest a definition for an orbifold tautological ring in genus , which is a subring of both the Chen–Ruan cohomology and of the stringy Chow ring.