This paper concerns three aspects of the action of a compact group K on a space

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We exhibit large classes of examples of noncommutative finitedimensional manifolds which are (non-formal) deformations of classical manifolds. The main result of this paper is a complete description of noncommutative three-dimensional spherical manifolds, a noncommutative version of the sphere S 3 defined by basic K-theoretic equations. We find a 3-parameter family of deformations of the standard 3-sphere S 3 and a corresponding 3-parameter deformation of the 4-dimensional Euclidean space R 4. For generic values of the deformation parameters we show that the obtained algebras of polynomials on the deformed R 4 u are isomorphic to the algebras introduced by Sklyanin in connection with the Yang-Baxter equation. Special values of the deformation parameters do not give rise to Sklyanin algebras and we extract a subclass, the θ-deformations, which we generalize in any dimension and various contexts, and study in some details. Here, and

Abstract. Let X be a K3 surface and C be a holomorphic curve in X representing a primitive homology class. We count the number of curves of geometric genus g with n nodes passing through g generic points in X in the linear system |C | for any g and n satisfying C · C = 2g + 2n − 2. When g = 0, this coincides with the enumerative problem studied by Yau and Zaslow who obtained a conjectural generating function for the numbers. Recently, Göttsche has generalized their conjecture to arbitrary g in terms of quasi-modular forms. We prove these formulas using Gromov-Witten invariants for families, a degeneration argument, and an obstruction bundle computation. Our methods also apply to P 2 blown up at 9 points where we show that the ordinary Gromov-Witten invariants of genus g constrained to g points are also given in terms of quasi-modular forms. Contents

The purpose of this paper is to establish in Theorem 13.13 a spectral sequence from the motivic cohomology of a smooth variety X over a field F to the algebraic K-theory of X: E p,q 2 = Hp−q (X, Z(−q)) = CH −q (X, −p − q) ⇒ K−p−q(X). (13.13.1) Such a spectral sequence was conjectured by A. Beilinson [Be] as a natural analogue of the Atiyah-Hirzebruch spectral sequence from the singular cohomology to the topological K-theory of a topological space. The expectation of such a spectral sequence has provided much of the impetus for the development of motivic cohomology (e.g., [B1], [V2]) and should facilitate many computations in algebraic K-theory. In the special case in which X equals SpecF, this spectral sequence was established by S. Bloch and S. Lichtenbaum [B-L]. Our construction depends crucially upon the main result of [B-L], the existence of an exact couple relating the motivic cohomology of the field F to the multirelative K-theory of coherent sheaves on standard simplices over F (recalled as Theorem 5.5 below). A major step in generalizing the work of Bloch and Lichtenbaum is our reinterpretation of their spectral sequence in terms of the “topological filtration ” on the K-theory of the standard cosimplicial scheme ∆ • over F. We find that the spectral sequence arises from a tower of Ω-prespectra K( ∆ • ) = K 0 ( ∆ • ) ← − K 1 ( ∆ • ) ← − K 2 ( ∆ • ) ← − · · · Thus, even in the special case in which X equals SpecF, we obtain a much clearer understanding of the Bloch-Lichtenbaum spectral sequence which is essential for purposes of generalization. Following this reinterpretation, we proceed using techniques introduced by V. Voevodsky in his study of motivic cohomology. In order to do this, we provide an equivalent formulation of K-theory spectra associated to coherent sheaves on X with conditions on their supports K q ( ∆ • × X) which is functorial in X. We then Partially supported by the N.S.F. and the N.S.A.

The problem of computing the characters of the finite dimensional irreducible representations of the Lie superalgebra gl(m|n) over C was solved a few years ago by V. Serganova [19]. In this article, we present an entirely different approach. We also formulate a precise

In this paper we describe how Grothendieck groups of coherent sheaves and locally free sheaves can be used to describe type II D-branes, in the case that all D-branes are wrapped on complex varieties and all connections are holomorphic. Our proposal is in the same spirit as recent discussions of K-theory and D-branes; within the restricted class mentioned, Grothendieck groups encode a choice of connection on each D-brane worldvolume, in addition to information about the C ∞ bundles. We also point out that derived categories can also be used to give insight into D-brane constructions, and analyze how a Z2 subset of the T-duality group acting on D-branes on tori can be understood in terms of a Fourier-Mukai transformation.

We explore the combinatorial properties of the branching areas of execution paths in higher dimensional automata. Mathematically, this means that we investigate the combinatorics of the negative corner (or branching) homology of a globular #-category and the combinatorics of a new homology theory called the reduced branching homology. The latter is the homology of the quotient of the branching complex by the sub-complex generated by its thin elements. Conjecturally it coincides with the non reduced theory for higher dimensional automata, that is #-categories freely generated by precubical sets. As application, we calculate the branching homology of some #-categories and we give some invariance results for the reduced branching homology. We only treat the branching side. The merging side, that is the case of merging areas of execution paths is similar and can be easily deduced from the branching side.

Abstract. Suppose that R is a ring and that A is a chain complex over R. Inside the derived category of differential graded R-modules there are naturally defined subcategories of A-torsion objects and of A-complete objects. Under a finiteness condition on A, we develop a Morita theory for these subcategories, find conceptual interpretations for some associated algebraic functors, and, in appropriate commutative situations, identify the associated functors as local homology or local cohomology. Some of the results are suprising even in the case R = Z and A = Z/p. 1.

In a previous paper [4], we gave an explicit construction of a free Baxter algebra. This construction is called the shuffle Baxter algebra since it is described in terms of mixable shuffles. In this paper and its sequel [5], we will continue the study of free Baxter algebras.