Poincaré submersions.
Polynomial structures on principal fibre bundles
Positivity of Schur function expansions of Thom polynomials
Combining the approach to Thom polynomials via classifying spaces of singularities with the Fulton-Lazarsfeld theory of cone classes and positive polynomials for ample vector bundles, we show that the coefficients of the Schur function expansions of the Thom polynomials of stable singularities are nonnegative with positive sum.
Positivity of Thom polynomials II: the Lagrange singularities
We study Thom polynomials associated with Lagrange singularities. We expand them in the basis of Q̃-functions. This basis plays a key role in the Schubert calculus of isotropic Grassmannians. We prove that the Q̃-function expansions of the Thom polynomials of Lagrange singularities always have nonnegative coefficients. This is an analog of a result on the Thom polynomials of mapping singularities and Schur S-functions, established formerly by the last two authors.
Postnikov Towers Associated with Complex 2-Plane and Symplectic Line Bundles.
Principal bundles with parabolic structure.
Principal fibre bundles with structural Lie groupoid.
Product splittings for p-compact groups
We show that a connected p-compact group with a trivial center is equivalent to a product of simple p-compact groups. More generally, we show that product splittings of any connected p-compact group correspond bijectively to algebraic splittings of the fundamental group of the maximal torus as a module over the Weyl group. These are analogues for p-compact groups of well-known theorems about compact Lie groups.
Prolongation of natural bundles
Quadratic mappings and configuration spaces
We discuss some approaches to the topological study of real quadratic mappings. Two effective methods of computing the Euler characteristics of fibers are presented which enable one to obtain comprehensive results for quadratic mappings with two-dimensional fibers. As an illustration we obtain a complete topological classification of configuration spaces of planar pentagons.
Quantum classifying spaces and universal quantum characteristic classes
A construction of the noncommutative-geometric counterparts of classical classifying spaces is presented, for general compact matrix quantum structure groups. A quantum analogue of the classical concept of the classifying map is introduced and analyzed. Interrelations with the abstract algebraic theory of quantum characteristic classes are discussed. Various non-equivalent approaches to defining universal characteristic classes are outlined.
Quantum principal bundles and their characteristic classes
A general theory of characteristic classes of quantum principal bundles is presented, incorporating basic ideas of classical Weil theory into the conceptual framework of noncommutative differential geometry. A purely cohomological interpretation of the Weil homomorphism is given, together with a geometrical interpretation via quantum invariant polynomials. A natural spectral sequence is described. Some interesting quantum phenomena appearing in the formalism are discussed.
Quelques éléments dans l'homotopie stable du groupe unitaire
Quelques remarques sur la classe de Maslov-Arnold
Quelques remarques sur les feuilletages affines
Rank-2 Vector Bundles on a Ruled Surface. I.
Rank-2 Vector Bundles on a Ruled Surface II.
Rational fibrations homogeneous spaces with positive Euler characteristics and Jacobians
We show that an orientable fibration whose fiber has a homotopy type of homogeneous space with rank is totally non homologous to zero for rational coefficients. The Jacobian formed by invariant polynomial under the Weyl group of plays a key role in the proof. We also show that it is valid for mod. coefficients if does not divide the order of the Weyl group of .
Rational homotopy of Serre fibrations
In rational homotopy theory, we show how the homotopy notion of pure fibration arises in a natural way. It can be proved that some fibrations, with homogeneous spaces as fibre are pure fibrations. Consequences of these results on the operation of a Lie group and the existence of Serre fibrations are given. We also examine various measures of rational triviality for a fibration and compare them with and whithout the hypothesis of pure fibration.
Rational Universal Fibrations and Flag Manifolds.