PROJECTIVE GENERATION FOR EQUIVARIANT -MODULES

We investigate compact projective generators in the category of equivariant "Image missing"-modules on a smooth affine variety. For a reductive group G acting on a smooth affine variety X, there is a natural countable set of compact projective generators indexed by finite dimensional representations of G. We show that only finitely many of these objects are required to generate; thus the category has a single compact projective generator. The proof goes via an analogous statement about compact generators in the equivariant derived category, which holds in much greater generality and may be of independent interest.

Tempered D-modules and Borel–Moore homology vanishing

We characterize the tempered part of the automorphic Langlands category $$\mathfrak {D}({\text {Bun}}_G)$$ D ( Bun G ) using the geometry of the big cell in the affine Grassmannian. We deduce that, for G non-abelian, tempered D-modules have no de Rham cohomology with compact support. The latter fact boils down to a concrete statement, which we prove using the Ran space and some explicit t-structure estimates: for G non-abelian and $$\Sigma $$ Σ a smooth affine curve, the Borel–Moore homology of the indscheme $${\text {Maps}}(\Sigma ,G)$$ Maps ( Σ , G ) vanishes.

Lower-Estimates on the Hochschild (Co)Homological Dimension of Commutative Algebras and Applications to Smooth Affine Schemes and Quasi-Free Algebras

The Hochschild cohomological dimension of any commutative k-algebra is lower-bounded by the least-upper bound of the flat-dimension difference and its global dimension. Our result is used to show that for a smooth affine scheme X satisfying Pointcaré duality, there must exist a vector bundle with section M and suitable n which the module of algebraic differential n-forms Ωn(X,M). Further restricting the notion of smoothness, we use our result to show that most k-algebras fail to be smooth in the quasi-free sense. This consequence, extends the currently known results, which are restricted to the case where k=C.

Cluster Structures on Double Bott–Samelson Cells

Let $\mathsf {C}$ be a symmetrisable generalised Cartan matrix. We introduce four different versions of double Bott–Samelson cells for every pair of positive braids in the generalised braid group associated to $\mathsf {C}$ . We prove that the decorated double Bott–Samelson cells are smooth affine varieties, whose coordinate rings are naturally isomorphic to upper cluster algebras. We explicitly describe the Donaldson–Thomas transformations on double Bott–Samelson cells and prove that they are cluster transformations. As an application, we complete the proof of the Fock–Goncharov duality conjecture in these cases. We discover a periodicity phenomenon of the Donaldson–Thomas transformations on a family of double Bott–Samelson cells. We give a (rather simple) geometric proof of Zamolodchikov’s periodicity conjecture in the cases of $\Delta \square \mathrm {A}_r$ . When $\mathsf {C}$ is of type $\mathrm {A}$ , the double Bott–Samelson cells are isomorphic to Shende–Treumann–Zaslow’s moduli spaces of microlocal rank-1 constructible sheaves associated to Legendrian links. By counting their $\mathbb {F}_q$ -points we obtain rational functions that are Legendrian link invariants.

Classifying spaces for étale algebras with generators

We construct a scheme $B(r; {\mathbb {A}}^n)$ such that a map $X \to B(r; {\mathbb {A}}^n)$ corresponds to a degree-n étale algebra on X equipped with r generating global sections. We then show that when $n=2$ , i.e., in the quadratic étale case, the singular cohomology of $B(r; {\mathbb {A}}^n)({\mathbb {R}})$ can be used to reconstruct a famous example of S. Chase and to extend its application to showing that there is a smooth affine $r-1$ -dimensional ${\mathbb {R}}$ -variety on which there are étale algebras ${\mathcal {A}}_n$ of arbitrary degrees n that cannot be generated by fewer than r elements. This shows that in the étale algebra case, a bound established by U. First and Z. Reichstein in [6] is sharp.

𝔸1-contractibility of affine modifications

We introduce Koras–Russell fiber bundles over algebraically closed fields of characteristic zero. After a single suspension, this exhibits an infinite family of smooth affine [Formula: see text]-contractible [Formula: see text]-folds. Moreover, we give examples of stably [Formula: see text]-contractible smooth affine [Formula: see text]-folds containing a Brieskorn–Pham surface, and a family of smooth affine [Formula: see text]-folds with a higher-dimensional [Formula: see text]-contractible total space.

On the vanishing of relative negative K-theory

In this paper, we study the relative negative [Formula: see text]-groups [Formula: see text] of a map [Formula: see text] of schemes. We prove a relative version of Weibel’s conjecture; i.e. if [Formula: see text] is a smooth affine map of Noetherian schemes with [Formula: see text], then [Formula: see text] for [Formula: see text] and the natural map [Formula: see text] is an isomorphism for all [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] We also prove a vanishing result for relative negative [Formula: see text]-groups of a subintegral map.