GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY OF EXTERNAL AND SYMMETRIC PRODUCTS OF VARIETIES

We give a brief overview of recent developments on the calculation of generating series for invariants of external products of suitable coefficients (e.g., constructible or coherent sheaves, or mixed Hodge modules) on complex quasi-projective varieties.

Symmetric products, linear representations and trace identities

We give the equations of the n-th symmetric product $$X^n/S_n$$ X n / S n of a flat affine scheme $$X=\mathrm {Spec}\,A$$ X = Spec A over a commutative ring F. As a consequence, we find a closed immersion into the coarse moduli space parameterizing n-dimensional linear representations of A. This is done by exhibiting an isomorphism between the ring of symmetric tensors over A and the ring generated by the coefficients of the characteristic polynomial of polynomials in commuting generic matrices giving representations of A. Using this we derive an isomorphism of the associated reduced schemes over an infinite field. When the characteristic is zero we show that this isomorphism is an isomorphism of schemes and we express it in term of traces.

Conceptions of Topological Transitivity on Symmetric Products

Let X be a topological space. For any positive integer n , we consider the n -fold symmetric product of X , ℱ n ( X ), consisting of all nonempty subsets of X with at most n points; and for a given function ƒ : X → X , we consider the induced functions ℱ n ( ƒ ): ℱ n ( X ) → ℱ n ( X ). Let M be one of the following classes of functions: exact, transitive, ℤ-transitive, ℤ + -transitive, mixing, weakly mixing, chaotic, turbulent, strongly transitive, totally transitive, orbit-transitive, strictly orbit-transitive, ω-transitive, minimal, I N, T T ++ , semi-open and irreducible. In this paper we study the relationship between the following statements: ƒ ∈ M and ℱ n ( ƒ ) ∈ M .

Divisor Varieties of Symmetric Products

The geometry of divisors on algebraic curves has been studied extensively over the years. The foundational results of this Brill-Noether theory imply that on a general curve, the spaces parametrizing linear series (of fixed degree and dimension) are smooth, irreducible projective varieties of known dimension. For higher dimensional varieties, the story is less well understood. Our purpose in this paper is to study in detail one class of higher dimensional examples where one can hope for a quite detailed picture, namely (the spaces parametrizing) divisors on the symmetric product of a curve.