The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, we extend Saito's filtration on Chow groups, which is a candidate for the conjectural Bloch Beilinson filtration on the Chow groups of a smooth projective variety, from Chow groups to the bivariant Chow groups. In order to do this, we construct cycle class maps from the bivariant Chow groups to bivariant cohomology groups. Secondly, we use our methods to define a bivariant version of Bloch's higher Chow groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
In this paper we define the 1,2-coloured HOMFLY-PT triply graded link homology and prove that it is a link invariant. We also conjecture on how to generalize our construction for arbitrary colours. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
In this paper, we compute the Gerstenhaber bracket on the Hoch-schild cohomology of $C^infty (M)rtimes G$ for a finite group $G$ acting on a compact manifold $M$. Using this computation, we obtain geometric descriptions for all noncommutative Poisson structures on $C^infty (M)rtimes G$ when $M$ is a symplectic manifold. We also discuss examples of deformation quantizations of these noncommutative Poisson structures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Generalizing some results from R. Leung's thesis, we compute, in rational cohomology, the Poincaré dual of the degeneracy locus of the family of Dirac operators parameterized by the moduli space of projectively anti-selfdual SO(3) connections on a closed four-manifold. This should be a useful tool in comparing gauge theoretic invariants of smooth four-manifolds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
We give an explicit formula for (T-equivariant) 3-pointed genus zero Gromov-Witten invariants for G/B. We derive it by finding an explicit formula for the Pontryagin product on the equivariant homology of the based loop group ΩK. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
A chain complex model for the free loop space of a connected, closed and oriented manifold is presented, and on its homology, the Gerstenhaber and Batalin-Vilkovisky algebra structures are defined and identified with the string topology structures. The gravity algebra on the equivariant homology of the free loop space is also modeled. The construction includes the non-simply connected case, and therefore gives an algebraic and chain level model of Chas-Sullivan's String Topology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]