Edited by: Fedor Bogomolov & Ludmil Katzarkov

Motives, Polylogarithms and Hodge Theory (Part I: Motives and Polyogarithms)

ISBN:1-57146-090-X
Year Published: 2002
Page: 414
Binding: Hardcover

Description
The present volume contains papers of the participants in the International Press
Conference on Motives, polylogarithms and non-abelian Hodge theory
which took place at UC Irvine in June 1998. The conference commemorated
the twentieth anniversary of the remarkable Irvine lectures of Spencer Bloch on

"Higher regulators, algebraic K-theory and zeta functions of elliptic curves". The conference presented some of the best recent research in algebraic K-theory, Hodge theory, motivic cohomology and polylogarithms. The research program of the conference was organized around three main lecture series:

VladimirVoevodsky taught a minicourse overviewing the recent developments in motivic cohomology and motivic homotopy theory; Don Zagier lectured on new results describing the periods of holomorphic and non-holomorphic modular forms; and Carlos Simpson lectured on the theory of geometric n-stacks and its applications to the variational aspects of non-abelian Hodge theory.

Table of Contents

I. MOTIIVES
Open Problems in the Motivic Stable Homotopy Theory, I,By Vladimir Voevodsky
1 Introduction
2 Slice filtration
3 Main conjectures
4 Slice-wise cellular spectra
5 Reformulations in terms of rigid homotopy groups
6 Rigid homology and rigid Adams spectral sequence
7 Slice spectral sequence and convergence problems
8 Possible strategies of the proof

Remarks on n-motives and correspondences at the generic point, By AIexander Beilinson
1 Introduction
2 The setting
3 Some natural injective n-motives
4 Some applications

Relative algebraic differential characters, By Spencer Bloch and Helene Esnault
1 Introduction
2 Relative Cohomology
3 Splitting Principle
4 Universal construction via the Weil algebra
5 The image of C2 in a family of curves

Commuting elements in Galois groups of function fields, By Fedor Bogomolov and Yuri Tschinkel
2 Classes of functions
3 Reductions
4 AF-functions and geometry
5 Galois theory
6 Valuations

Mixed Hodge Structures and Iterated Integrals, I, by Zdzislaw Wojtkowiak
0 Introduction
1 Monodromy of iterated integrals
2 Mixed Hodge structures
3 Cosimplicial objects and mixed motives
4 Coefficients
5 The conjecture (real form)
6 Proof of the conjecture
7 The conjecture (complex form)
8 Functional equations on P1(C) \ {O,1,oo}
9 Coefficients on P1Q\ {O,1,oo}
10 Examples
11 Iterated extensions
12 Exotic zeta functions
13 Problems

Appendix A. Tangential base points and monodromy of iterated integrals
Appendix B. Group Zariski closure

II POLYLOGARITHMS AND SPECIAL FUNCTIONS

Traces of singular moduli, by Don Zagier
Introduction
1 The trace of j(α)
2 A recursion for the numbers t(d)
3 Proof of the first recursion for t(d)
4 Proof of the second recursion for t(d)
5 Relation to Borcherds's theorem
6 Hecke operators
7 First generalization: other discriminants
8 Second generalization: other groups
9 Third generalization: other weights

Explicit Regulator maps on polylogarithmic motivic complexes, By A. B. Goncharov
1 Introduction
2 The main result
3 Arakelov motivic complexes: examples
4 Proofs

An explicit formula for the motivic elliptic polylogarithm, By Andrey Levin
1 Introduction
2 The basic functions and symbols
3 Explicit expressions for functions Ф for an elliptic curve over a field

On the Eisenstein symbol, By Jorg Wildeshaus
0 Introduction
1 The elliptic motivic polylogarithm
2 The formalism of elliptic Bloch groups
3 The proofs

Edited by: Fedor Bogomolov & Ludmil Katzarkov

Motives, Polylogarithms and Hodge Theory (Part II: Hodge Theory)

ISBN:1-57146-091-8
Year Published: 2002
Page: 334
Binding: Hardcover

Description

The present volume contains papers of the participants in the International Press
Conference on Motives, polylogarithms and non-abelian Hodge theory
which took place at UC Irvine in June 1998. The conference commemorated
the twentieth anniversary of the remarkable Irvine lectures of Spencer Bloch on

"Higher regulators, algebraic K-theory and zeta functions of elliptic curves". The conference presented some of the best recent research in algebraic K-theory, Hodge theory, motivic cohomology and polylogarithms. The research program of the conference was organized around three main lecture series:

VladimirVoevodsky taught a minicourse overviewing the recent developments in motivic cohomology and motivic homotopy theory; Don Zagier lectured on new results describing the periods of holomorphic and non-holomorphic modular forms; and Carlos Simpson lectured on the theory of geometric n-stacks and its applications to the variational aspects of non-abelian Hodge theory.

Table of Contents

III HODGE THEORY

Algebraic aspects of higher nonabelian Hodge theory, By Carlos Simpson
1 Introduction
2 Varieties with abelian fundamental group
3 Nonabelian cohomology
4 Zoology
5 Cartesian families and base change
6 Very presentable n-stacks
7 Geometric n-stacks
8 Formal groupoids of smooth type
9 Formal categories related to Hodge theory
10 Presentability and geometricity results

Higgs bundles, integrability, and holomorphic forms By Donu Arapura
1 Consequences of the abelian theory
2 Higgs bundles and all that
3 A Nonabelian Analogue of b1 = 2q
4 Quaternionic geometry and Lagrangian maps
5 Integrability of Hitchin'smap
6 Cohomology support loci
7 Characteristic Cones and Products of Higgs Bundles
8 Shafarevich Maps
9 Powers of the canonical bundle

Nonabelian (p, p) classes, by Ludmil Katzarkov and Tony Pantev
1 Introduction
2 Preliminaries on D-varieties
3 Nonabelian Hodge structures
4 The Gauss-Manin connection
5 The main theorem
Appendix A. Tangent stacks

The structure of Kahler groups, I: second cohomology, by Alexander Reznikov

0 Introduction
1 A geometric picture for rigid representations
2 Proof of the Superrigidity Lemma
3 Variation of Hodge structure, corresponding to rigid representations to SO(2, n)
4 Variations of Hodge structure, corresponding to a rigid representationo Sp(4)
5 Variations of Hodge structure, corresponding to a rigid representation
to Sp(2n), and proof of the Superrigidity Lemma (3)
6 Regulators, I: proof of the Main Theorem
7 Regulators, II: proof of Theorems 0.1, 0.2
8 Nonrigid representations
9 Three-manifolds groups are not Kahler
10 Central extensions of lattices in PSU(2, 1)
11 Smooth hypersurfaces in ball quotients which are not K (π,1)

Some Hodge theory from Lie algebras, by Constantin Teleman
Introduction
1 Refresher on cyclic homology
2 Homology of gl(A)
3 Conjectures and some results for g(A)
4 Loop groups
5 Hodge-to de Rham spectral sequence for X

Editors: Benghe Li, Shicheng Wang, Xuezhi Zhao

Low Dimensional Topology,
Lectures at the Morningside Center of Mathematics

ISBN #: 1-57146-112-4
Year of Publication: 2003
Page: 80
Binding: Softcover

Description

This volume contains most of the series of lectures presented during the half-year program of Low-Dimensional Topology, held at The Morningside Center of Mathematics, of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing. The order of contents is based on the chronological order in which the lectures were presented.

This book is the third volume of the series in New Studies in Advanced Mathematics. The other two volumes are: Morse Theory, Minimax Theory, and their Applications to Nonlinear Differential Equations, and Lectures on Partial Differential Equations: Proceedings in Honor of Louis Nirenberg's 75th Birthday.

Table of Contents

Definition of the Seiberg- Witten (SW) invariants of 4-manifolds - John W. Morgan
Computation of SW invariants for certain 4-manifolds - John W. Morgan
Heegaard splittings of 3-manifolds - Martin Scharlemann
Dehn filling - C. McA. Gordon
Dehn's Lemma and the Loop Theorem - Hyam Rubinstein Polyhedral Geometry - Hyam Rubinstein
Triangulations of 3-manifolds - Hyam Rubinstein


Atiyah.M. et al.

The Founders of Index Theory:
Reminiscences of Atiyah, Bott, Hirzebruch and Singer

Description

Index Theory is one of the most exciting discoveries of 20th century mathematics. The story
of the four great mathematicians who uncovered index theory is told in this book. Their
own essays of historical importance, articles written by Donaldson, Witten, Yau and others...
and a large photo section make this title a valuable document for everyone having an
interest to understand mathematics and mathematicians.

1. A Personal History ・M. Atiyah
2. Sir Michael Atiyah: a brief biography ・Nigel
Hitchin
3. A Letter from Raoul Bott ・R. Bott
4. Geometry in Oxford c. 1980-85 ・Simon Donaldson
5. Recollections about my teacher, Michael Atiyah ・
G. Lusztig
6. Memories of Sir Michael Atiyah ・Louis Nirenberg
7. Being a graduate student of Michael Atiyah ・G. B.
Segal
8. Michael Atiyah and the Physics/ Geometry Interface
・E. Witten
9. Mathematics: Queen and Servant of the Sciences ・
M. Atiyah
10. The Conscience of Science ・M. Atiyah
11. Interview with Raoul Bott
12. The Life and Works of Raoul Bott ・Loring W. Tu
13. Lessons from Graduate School ・Robin Forman
14. The Beautiful Vision of Raoul Bott ・Nancy Hingston
15. Some Reminiscences about Raoul Bott ・Peter
Landweber
16. Reminiscences of Working with Raoul Bott ・Loring
W. Tu
17. Lessons from Raoul Bott ・E. Witten
18. Correspondence with Prof. Todd ・J.A. Todd & F.
Hirzebruch
19. Kunihiko Kodaira: Mathematician, Friend and
Teacher ・F. Hirzebruch
20. Bonn's Max Planck Institute: A New Building and a
New Era ・Allyn Jackson
21. Singularities in the Work of Frederich Hirzebruch
・Egbert Brierskorn
22. Frederich Hirzebruch and Mathematics in Post-war
Germany ・Klaus Hulek
23. In Honor of the 50th Anniversary of Hirzebruch's
Doctorate ・Matthias Kreck
24. A Tribute to Warren Ambrose - Is Singer
25. Singer痴 Berkeley Seminar ・D. Freed & J. Lott
26. Which Singer is That? ・Richard V. Kadison
27. Reminiscenes of a Mathematics Student, 40 years
ago ・Hugo Ross
28. Is Singer ・Dan Stroock
29. I. M. Singer ・Frank Warner
30. Is Singer's Contributions to Geometry and Physics ・
E. Witten
31. My Friendship with Singer ・S. T. Yau
32. Letter to Raoul, Fritz, and Is ・M. Atiyah
33. Letter to Fritz, Is and Michael ・R. Bott
34. Letter to Michael, Raoul and Iz ・F Hirzebruch
35. Letters to Michael, Raoul and Fritz・I.M. Singer
36. The Evolution of Modern Analysis ・R. G. Douglas
37. A Happy Collaboration ・Lars Garding
38. Memories of the Gang of Four - Albert Weinstein