scholarly journals Poincaré Duality of Wonderful Compactifications and Tautological Rings

2015 ◽  
Vol 2016 (17) ◽  
pp. 5187-5201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Petersen
Keyword(s):  
Poincaré Duality ◽  
Poincare Duality ◽  
Tautological Rings

scholarly journals Tautological rings of spaces of pointed genus two curves of compact type

2016 ◽  
Vol 152 (7) ◽  
pp. 1398-1420 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Petersen
Keyword(s):  
Hodge Structure ◽  
Galois Representation ◽  
Mixed Hodge Structure ◽  
Poincaré Duality ◽  
General Study ◽  
Compact Type ◽  
Poincare Duality ◽  
Tautological Ring ◽  
Genus Two ◽  
Tautological Rings

We prove that the tautological ring of ${\mathcal{M}}_{2,n}^{\mathsf{ct}}$, the moduli space of $n$-pointed genus two curves of compact type, does not have Poincaré duality for any $n\geqslant 8$. This result is obtained via a more general study of the cohomology groups of ${\mathcal{M}}_{2,n}^{\mathsf{ct}}$. We explain how the cohomology can be decomposed into pieces corresponding to different local systems and how the tautological cohomology can be identified within this decomposition. Our results allow the computation of $H^{k}({\mathcal{M}}_{2,n}^{\mathsf{ct}})$ for any $k$ and $n$ considered both as $\mathbb{S}_{n}$-representation and as mixed Hodge structure/$\ell$-adic Galois representation considered up to semi-simplification. A consequence of our results is also that all even cohomology of $\overline{{\mathcal{M}}}_{2,n}$ is tautological for $n<20$, and that the tautological ring of $\overline{{\mathcal{M}}}_{2,n}$ fails to have Poincaré duality for all $n\geqslant 20$. This improves and simplifies results of the author and Orsola Tommasi.

scholarly journals TOPOLOGICAL 4-MANIFOLDS WITH 4-DIMENSIONAL FUNDAMENTAL GROUP

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
DANIEL KASPROWSKI ◽  
MARKUS LAND
Keyword(s):  
Fundamental Group ◽  
Homotopy Equivalent ◽  
Poincaré Duality ◽  
Poincare Duality ◽  
Canonical Map ◽  
Duality Space ◽  
Simply Connected Manifolds ◽  
Simply Connected ◽  
Poincaré Duality Space

Abstract Let $\pi$ be a group satisfying the Farrell–Jones conjecture and assume that $B\pi$ is a 4-dimensional Poincaré duality space. We consider topological, closed, connected manifolds with fundamental group $\pi$ whose canonical map to $B\pi$ has degree 1, and show that two such manifolds are s-cobordant if and only if their equivariant intersection forms are isometric and they have the same Kirby–Siebenmann invariant. If $\pi$ is good in the sense of Freedman, it follows that two such manifolds are homeomorphic if and only if they are homotopy equivalent and have the same Kirby–Siebenmann invariant. This shows rigidity in many cases that lie between aspherical 4-manifolds, where rigidity is expected by Borel’s conjecture, and simply connected manifolds where rigidity is a consequence of Freedman’s classification results.

Splittings of Poincaré Duality Groups III

1989 ◽  
Vol s2-39 (2) ◽  
pp. 271-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.H. Kropholler ◽  
M. A. Roller
Keyword(s):  
Poincaré Duality ◽  
Poincare Duality ◽  
Duality Groups

scholarly journals The Baum-Connes conjecture, noncommutative Poincaré duality, and the boundary of the free group

2003 ◽  
Vol 2003 (38) ◽  
pp. 2425-2445 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heath Emerson
Keyword(s):  
Free Group ◽  
Homology Class ◽  
Hyperbolic Group ◽  
Cross Product ◽  
Direct Connection ◽  
Poincaré Duality ◽  
Poincare Duality ◽  
Duality Map ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Gromov Boundary

For every hyperbolic groupΓwith Gromov boundary∂Γ, one can form the cross productC∗-algebraC(∂Γ)⋊Γ. For each such algebra, we construct a canonicalK-homology class. This class induces a Poincaré duality mapK∗(C(∂Γ)⋊Γ)→K∗+1(C(∂Γ)⋊Γ). We show that this map is an isomorphism in the case ofΓ=𝔽2, the free group on two generators. We point out a direct connection between our constructions and the Baum-Connes conjecture and eventually use the latter to deduce our result.

scholarly journals The $Z$-Polynomial of a Matroid

10.37236/7105 ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Proudfoot ◽  
Yuan Xu ◽  
Ben Young
Keyword(s):  
Closed Formula ◽  
Poincaré Duality ◽  
Poincare Duality ◽  
Whitney Numbers ◽  
Alternating Sums ◽  
Cohomological Interpretation

We introduce the $Z$-polynomial of a matroid, which we define in terms of the Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomial. We then exploit a symmetry of the $Z$-polynomial to derive a new recursion for Kazhdan-Lusztig coefficients. We solve this recursion, obtaining a closed formula for Kazhdan-Lusztig coefficients as alternating sums of multi-indexed Whitney numbers. For realizable matroids, we give a cohomological interpretation of the $Z$-polynomial in which the symmetry is a manifestation of Poincaré duality.

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