Sur la dualité de Poincaré.
Sur le rôle de la monodromie entière dans la topologie des singularités
Nous considérons l’action de la monodromie sur l’homologie de la fibre de Milnor d’une singularité complexe. Cette action est plus compliquée que prévu : en effet nous montrons que, sur , elle n’est, en général, pas somme directe de modules cycliques. Nous donnons également des exemples prouvant que la monodromie rationnelle ne détermine pas la monodromie entière et que la monodromie entière ne détermine pas la topologie.
Sur les sous-espaces des complexes simpliciaux
Surfaces in 3-space that do not lift to embeddings in 4-space
A necessary and sufficient condition for an immersed surface in 3-space to be lifted to an embedding in 4-space is given in terms of colorings of the preimage of the double point set. Giller's example and two new examples of non-liftable generic surfaces in 3-space are presented. One of these examples has branch points. The other is based on a construction similar to the construction of Giller's example in which the orientation double cover of a surface with odd Euler characteristic is immersed...
Surfaces in the complex projective plane and their mapping class groups.
Symmetric invariants and cohomology of groups.
Systolic invariants of groups and -complexes via Grushko decomposition
We prove a finiteness result for the systolic area of groups. Namely, we show that there are only finitely many possible unfree factors of fundamental groups of -complexes whose systolic area is uniformly bounded. We also show that the number of freely indecomposable such groups grows at least exponentially with the bound on the systolic area. Furthermore, we prove a uniform systolic inequality for all -complexes with unfree fundamental group that improves the previously known bounds in this dimension....