{"title":"Almost complex structures on connected sums of complex projective spaces","authors":"Oliver Goertsches, Panagiotis Konstantis","doi":"10.2140/akt.2019.4.139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2140/akt.2019.4.139","url":null,"abstract":"We show that the m-fold connected sum $m#mathbb{C}mathbb{P}^{2n}$ admits an almost complex structure if and only if m is odd.","PeriodicalId":42182,"journal":{"name":"Annals of K-Theory","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2017-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2140/akt.2019.4.139","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67938485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Let $Gamma$ be a discrete group. Assuming rational injectivity of the Baum-Connes assembly map, we provide new lower bounds on the rank of the positive scalar curvature bordism group and the relative group in Stolz' positive scalar curvature sequence for $mathrm{B} Gamma$. The lower bounds are formulated in terms of the part of degree up to $2$ in the group homology of $Gamma$ with coefficients in the $mathbb{C}Gamma$-module generated by finite order elements. Our results use and extend work of Botvinnik and Gilkey which treated the case of finite groups. Further crucial ingredients are a real counterpart to the delocalized equivariant Chern character and Matthey's work on explicitly inverting this Chern character in low homological degrees.
{"title":"Positive scalar curvature and low-degree group homology","authors":"No'e B'arcenas, Rudolf Zeidler","doi":"10.2140/akt.2018.3.565","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2140/akt.2018.3.565","url":null,"abstract":"Let $Gamma$ be a discrete group. Assuming rational injectivity of the Baum-Connes assembly map, we provide new lower bounds on the rank of the positive scalar curvature bordism group and the relative group in Stolz' positive scalar curvature sequence for $mathrm{B} Gamma$. The lower bounds are formulated in terms of the part of degree up to $2$ in the group homology of $Gamma$ with coefficients in the $mathbb{C}Gamma$-module generated by finite order elements. Our results use and extend work of Botvinnik and Gilkey which treated the case of finite groups. Further crucial ingredients are a real counterpart to the delocalized equivariant Chern character and Matthey's work on explicitly inverting this Chern character in low homological degrees.","PeriodicalId":42182,"journal":{"name":"Annals of K-Theory","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2017-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2140/akt.2018.3.565","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43588572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
We begin a systematic investigation of derived categories of smooth projective toric varieties defined over an arbitrary base field. We show that, in many cases, toric varieties admit full exceptional collections. Examples include all toric surfaces, all toric Fano 3-folds, some toric Fano 4-folds, the generalized del Pezzo varieties of Voskresenskii and Klyachko, and toric varieties associated to Weyl fans of type $A$. Our main technical tool is a completely general Galois descent result for exceptional collections of objects on (possibly non-toric) varieties over non-closed fields.
{"title":"On derived categories of arithmetic toric varieties","authors":"Matthew R. Ballard, A. Duncan, P. McFaddin","doi":"10.2140/akt.2019.4.211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2140/akt.2019.4.211","url":null,"abstract":"We begin a systematic investigation of derived categories of smooth projective toric varieties defined over an arbitrary base field. We show that, in many cases, toric varieties admit full exceptional collections. Examples include all toric surfaces, all toric Fano 3-folds, some toric Fano 4-folds, the generalized del Pezzo varieties of Voskresenskii and Klyachko, and toric varieties associated to Weyl fans of type $A$. Our main technical tool is a completely general Galois descent result for exceptional collections of objects on (possibly non-toric) varieties over non-closed fields.","PeriodicalId":42182,"journal":{"name":"Annals of K-Theory","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2017-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2140/akt.2019.4.211","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42117171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The congruence subgroup problem for a finitely generated group $Gamma$ and $Gleq Aut(Gamma)$ asks whether the map $hat{G}to Aut(hat{Gamma})$ is injective, or more generally, what is its kernel $Cleft(G,Gammaright)$? Here $hat{X}$ denotes the profinite completion of $X$. In this paper we investigate $Cleft(IA(Phi_{n}),Phi_{n}right)$, where $Phi_{n}$ is a free metabelian group on $ngeq4$ generators, and $IA(Phi_{n})=ker(Aut(Phi_{n})to GL_{n}(mathbb{Z}))$. We introduce surjective representations of $IA(Phi_{n})$ onto the group $ker(GL_{n-1}(mathbb{Z}[x^{pm1}])overset{xmapsto1}{longrightarrow}GL_{n-1}(mathbb{Z}))$ which come via the classical Magnus representation of $IA(Phi_{n})$. Using this representations combined with some methods and results from Algebraic K-theory, we prove that for every $ngeq4$, $Cleft(IA(Phi_{n}),Phi_{n}right)$ contains a product of $n$ copies of the congruence kernel $ker(widehat{SL_{n-1}(mathbb{Z}[x^{pm1}]})to SL_{n-1}(widehat{mathbb{Z}[x^{pm1}]}))$ which is central in $widehat{IA(Phi_{n})}$. It enables us to show that contrary to free nilpotent cases, $Cleft(IA(Phi_{n}),Phi_{n}right)$ is not trivial and not even finitely generated. We note that using some results of this paper we show in an upcoming paper that actually, all the elements of $Cleft(IA(Phi_{n}),Phi_{n}right)$ lie in the center of $widehat{IA(Phi_{n})}$.
{"title":"The IA-congruence kernel of high rank free metabelian groups","authors":"David el-Chai Ben-Ezra","doi":"10.2140/akt.2019.4.383","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2140/akt.2019.4.383","url":null,"abstract":"The congruence subgroup problem for a finitely generated group $Gamma$ and $Gleq Aut(Gamma)$ asks whether the map $hat{G}to Aut(hat{Gamma})$ is injective, or more generally, what is its kernel $Cleft(G,Gammaright)$? Here $hat{X}$ denotes the profinite completion of $X$. In this paper we investigate $Cleft(IA(Phi_{n}),Phi_{n}right)$, where $Phi_{n}$ is a free metabelian group on $ngeq4$ generators, and $IA(Phi_{n})=ker(Aut(Phi_{n})to GL_{n}(mathbb{Z}))$. \u0000We introduce surjective representations of $IA(Phi_{n})$ onto the group $ker(GL_{n-1}(mathbb{Z}[x^{pm1}])overset{xmapsto1}{longrightarrow}GL_{n-1}(mathbb{Z}))$ which come via the classical Magnus representation of $IA(Phi_{n})$. Using this representations combined with some methods and results from Algebraic K-theory, we prove that for every $ngeq4$, $Cleft(IA(Phi_{n}),Phi_{n}right)$ contains a product of $n$ copies of the congruence kernel $ker(widehat{SL_{n-1}(mathbb{Z}[x^{pm1}]})to SL_{n-1}(widehat{mathbb{Z}[x^{pm1}]}))$ which is central in $widehat{IA(Phi_{n})}$. It enables us to show that contrary to free nilpotent cases, $Cleft(IA(Phi_{n}),Phi_{n}right)$ is not trivial and not even finitely generated. \u0000We note that using some results of this paper we show in an upcoming paper that actually, all the elements of $Cleft(IA(Phi_{n}),Phi_{n}right)$ lie in the center of $widehat{IA(Phi_{n})}$.","PeriodicalId":42182,"journal":{"name":"Annals of K-Theory","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2017-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45632187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
We extend earlier work of Waldhausen which defines operations on the algebraic $K$-theory of the one-point space. For a connected simplicial abelian group $X$ and symmetric groups $Sigma_n$, we define operations $theta^n colon A(X) rightarrow A(X{times}BSigma_n)$ in the algebraic $K$-theory of spaces. We show that our operations can be given the structure of $E_{infty}$-maps. Let $phi_n colon A(X{times}BSigma_n) rightarrow A(X{times}ESigma_n) simeq A(X)$ be the $Sigma_n$-transfer. We also develop an inductive procedure to compute the compositions $phi_n circ theta^n$, and outline some applications.
{"title":"Segal operations in the algebraic K-theory of\u0000topological spaces","authors":"T. Gunnarsson, R. Staffeldt","doi":"10.2140/akt.2019.4.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2140/akt.2019.4.1","url":null,"abstract":"We extend earlier work of Waldhausen which defines operations on the algebraic $K$-theory of the one-point space. For a connected simplicial abelian group $X$ and symmetric groups $Sigma_n$, we define operations $theta^n colon A(X) rightarrow A(X{times}BSigma_n)$ in the algebraic $K$-theory of spaces. We show that our operations can be given the structure of $E_{infty}$-maps. Let $phi_n colon A(X{times}BSigma_n) rightarrow A(X{times}ESigma_n) simeq A(X)$ be the $Sigma_n$-transfer. We also develop an inductive procedure to compute the compositions $phi_n circ theta^n$, and outline some applications.","PeriodicalId":42182,"journal":{"name":"Annals of K-Theory","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2017-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2140/akt.2019.4.1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44031777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}