An effective criterion for the existence of a mass partition
We give an example of a space with the property that every orientable fibration with the fiber is rationally totally non-cohomologous to zero, while there exists a nontrivial derivation of the rational cohomology of of negative degree.
We explore connections between our previous paper [J. Reine Angew. Math. 604 (2007)], where we constructed spectra that interpolate between bu and Hℤ, and earlier work of Kuhn and Priddy on the Whitehead conjecture and of Rognes on the stable rank filtration in algebraic K-theory. We construct a "chain complex of spectra" that is a bu analogue of an auxiliary complex used by Kuhn-Priddy; we conjecture that this chain complex is "exact"; and we give some supporting evidence. We tie this to work of...
We study the blow-ups of configuration spaces. These spaces have a structure of what we call an Orlik–Solomon manifold; it allows us to compute the intersection cohomology of certain flat connections with logarithmic singularities using some Aomoto type complexes of logarithmic forms. Using this construction we realize geometrically the Bernstein–Gelfand–Gelfand resolution as an Aomoto complex.
We estimate the characteristic rank of the canonical –plane bundle over the oriented Grassmann manifold . We then use it to compute uniform upper bounds for the –cup-length of for belonging to certain intervals.