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Hodge Bundle
In mathematics, the Hodge bundle, named after W. V. D. Hodge, appears in the study of families of curves, where it provides an invariant in the moduli theory of algebraic curves. Furthermore, it has applications to the theory of modular forms on reductive algebraic groups and string theory. Definition Let \mathcal_g be the moduli space of algebraic curves of genus ''g'' curves over some scheme. The Hodge bundle \Lambda_g is a vector bundleHere, "vector bundle" in the sense of quasi-coherent sheaf on an algebraic stack on \mathcal_g whose fiber at a point ''C'' in \mathcal_g is the space of holomorphic differentials on the curve ''C''. To define the Hodge bundle, let \pi\colon \mathcal_g\rightarrow\mathcal_g be the universal algebraic curve of genus ''g'' and let \omega_g be its relative dualizing sheaf. The Hodge bundle is the pushforward The notion of pushforward in mathematics is "dual" to the notion of pullback, and can mean a number of different but closely related things. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathematics
Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics with the major subdisciplines of number theory, algebra, geometry, and analysis, respectively. There is no general consensus among mathematicians about a common definition for their academic discipline. Most mathematical activity involves the discovery of properties of abstract objects and the use of pure reason to prove them. These objects consist of either abstractions from nature orin modern mathematicsentities that are stipulated to have certain properties, called axioms. A ''proof'' consists of a succession of applications of deductive rules to already established results. These results include previously proved theorems, axioms, andin case of abstraction from naturesome basic properties that are considered true starting points of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scheme (algebraic Geometry)
In mathematics, a scheme is a mathematical structure that enlarges the notion of algebraic variety in several ways, such as taking account of multiplicities (the equations ''x'' = 0 and ''x''2 = 0 define the same algebraic variety but different schemes) and allowing "varieties" defined over any commutative ring (for example, Fermat curves are defined over the integers). Scheme theory was introduced by Alexander Grothendieck in 1960 in his treatise "Éléments de géométrie algébrique"; one of its aims was developing the formalism needed to solve deep problems of algebraic geometry, such as the Weil conjectures (the last of which was proved by Pierre Deligne). Strongly based on commutative algebra, scheme theory allows a systematic use of methods of topology and homological algebra. Scheme theory also unifies algebraic geometry with much of number theory, which eventually led to Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. Formally, a scheme is a topological space together with commut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moduli Theory
In mathematics, in particular algebraic geometry, a moduli space is a geometric space (usually a scheme or an algebraic stack) whose points represent algebro-geometric objects of some fixed kind, or isomorphism classes of such objects. Such spaces frequently arise as solutions to classification problems: If one can show that a collection of interesting objects (e.g., the smooth algebraic curves of a fixed genus) can be given the structure of a geometric space, then one can parametrize such objects by introducing coordinates on the resulting space. In this context, the term "modulus" is used synonymously with "parameter"; moduli spaces were first understood as spaces of parameters rather than as spaces of objects. A variant of moduli spaces is formal moduli. Motivation Moduli spaces are spaces of solutions of geometric classification problems. That is, the points of a moduli space correspond to solutions of geometric problems. Here different solutions are identified if they ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ELSV Formula
In mathematics, the ELSV formula, named after its four authors , , Michael Shapiro, Alek Vainshtein, is an equality between a Hurwitz number (counting ramified coverings of the sphere) and an integral over the moduli space of stable curves. Several fundamental results in the intersection theory of moduli spaces of curves can be deduced from the ELSV formula, including the Witten conjecture, the Virasoro constraints, and the \lambda_g-conjecture. It is generalized by the Gopakumar–Mariño–Vafa formula. The formula Define the ''Hurwitz number'' : h_ as the number of ramified coverings of the complex projective line (Riemann sphere, \mathbb^1(\C)) that are connected curves of genus ''g'', with ''n'' numbered preimages of the point at infinity having multiplicities k_1, \dots, k_n and ''m'' more simple branch points. Here if a covering has a nontrivial automorphism group ''G'' it should be counted with weight 1/, G, . The ELSV formula then reads : h_ = \dfrac \prod_^n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graduate Texts In Mathematics
Graduate Texts in Mathematics (GTM) (ISSN 0072-5285) is a series of graduate-level textbooks in mathematics published by Springer-Verlag. The books in this series, like the other Springer-Verlag mathematics series, are yellow books of a standard size (with variable numbers of pages). The GTM series is easily identified by a white band at the top of the book. The books in this series tend to be written at a more advanced level than the similar Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics series, although there is a fair amount of overlap between the two series in terms of material covered and difficulty level. List of books #''Introduction to Axiomatic Set Theory'', Gaisi Takeuti, Wilson M. Zaring (1982, 2nd ed., ) #''Measure and Category – A Survey of the Analogies between Topological and Measure Spaces'', John C. Oxtoby (1980, 2nd ed., ) #''Topological Vector Spaces'', H. H. Schaefer, M. P. Wolff (1999, 2nd ed., ) #''A Course in Homological Algebra'', Peter Hilton, Urs Stammbac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Direct Image Sheaf
In mathematics, the direct image functor is a construction in sheaf theory that generalizes the global sections functor to the relative case. It is of fundamental importance in topology and algebraic geometry. Given a sheaf ''F'' defined on a topological space ''X'' and a continuous map ''f'': ''X'' → ''Y'', we can define a new sheaf ''f''∗''F'' on ''Y'', called the direct image sheaf or the pushforward sheaf of ''F'' along ''f'', such that the global sections of ''f''∗''F'' is given by the global sections of ''F''. This assignment gives rise to a functor ''f''∗ from the category of sheaves on ''X'' to the category of sheaves on ''Y'', which is known as the direct image functor. Similar constructions exist in many other algebraic and geometric contexts, including that of quasi-coherent sheaves and étale sheaves on a scheme. Definition Let ''f'': ''X'' → ''Y'' be a continuous map of topological spaces, and let Sh(–) denote the category of sheaves of abelian groups on a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Relative Dualizing Sheaf
In algebraic geometry, the dualizing sheaf on a proper scheme ''X'' of dimension ''n'' over a field ''k'' is a coherent sheaf \omega_X together with a linear functional :t_X: \operatorname^n(X, \omega_X) \to k that induces a natural isomorphism of vector spaces :\operatorname_X(F, \omega_X) \simeq \operatorname^n(X, F)^*, \, \varphi \mapsto t_X \circ \varphi for each coherent sheaf ''F'' on ''X'' (the superscript * refers to a dual vector space). The linear functional t_X is called a trace morphism. A pair (\omega_X, t_X), if it is exists, is unique up to a natural isomorphism. In fact, in the language of category theory, \omega_X is an object representing the contravariant functor F \mapsto \operatorname^n(X, F)^* from the category of coherent sheaves on ''X'' to the category of ''k''-vector spaces. For a normal projective variety ''X'', the dualizing sheaf exists and it is in fact the canonical sheaf: \omega_X = \mathcal_X(K_X) where K_X is a canonical divisor. More generally, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Universal Object
In category theory, a branch of mathematics, an initial object of a category is an object in such that for every object in , there exists precisely one morphism . The dual notion is that of a terminal object (also called terminal element): is terminal if for every object in there exists exactly one morphism . Initial objects are also called coterminal or universal, and terminal objects are also called final. If an object is both initial and terminal, it is called a zero object or null object. A pointed category is one with a zero object. A strict initial object is one for which every morphism into is an isomorphism. Examples * The empty set is the unique initial object in Set, the category of sets. Every one-element set (singleton) is a terminal object in this category; there are no zero objects. Similarly, the empty space is the unique initial object in Top, the category of topological spaces and every one-point space is a terminal object in this category. * In the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holomorphic Differential
In mathematics, ''differential of the first kind'' is a traditional term used in the theories of Riemann surfaces (more generally, complex manifolds) and algebraic curves (more generally, algebraic varieties), for everywhere-regular differential 1-forms. Given a complex manifold ''M'', a differential of the first kind ω is therefore the same thing as a 1-form that is everywhere holomorphic; on an algebraic variety ''V'' that is non-singular it would be a global section of the coherent sheaf Ω1 of Kähler differentials. In either case the definition has its origins in the theory of abelian integrals. The dimension of the space of differentials of the first kind, by means of this identification, is the Hodge number :''h''1,0. The differentials of the first kind, when integrated along paths, give rise to integrals that generalise the elliptic integrals to all curves over the complex numbers. They include for example the hyperelliptic integrals of type : \int\frac where ''Q ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quasi-coherent Sheaf On An Algebraic Stack
In algebraic geometry, a quasi-coherent sheaf on an algebraic stack \mathfrak is a generalization of a quasi-coherent sheaf on a scheme. The most concrete description is that it is a data that consists of, for each a scheme ''S'' in the base category and \xi in \mathfrak(S), a quasi-coherent sheaf F_ on ''S'' together with maps implementing the compatibility conditions among F_'s. For a Deligne–Mumford stack, there is a simpler description in terms of a presentation U \to \mathfrak: a quasi-coherent sheaf on \mathfrak is one obtained by descending a quasi-coherent sheaf on ''U''. A quasi-coherent sheaf on a Deligne–Mumford stack generalizes an orbibundle (in a sense). Constructible sheaves (e.g., as ℓ-adic sheaves) can also be defined on an algebraic stack and they appear as coefficients of cohomology of a stack. Definition The following definition is Let \mathfrak be a category fibered in groupoids over the category of schemes of finite type over a field with the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vector Bundle
In mathematics, a vector bundle is a topological construction that makes precise the idea of a family of vector spaces parameterized by another space X (for example X could be a topological space, a manifold, or an algebraic variety): to every point x of the space X we associate (or "attach") a vector space V(x) in such a way that these vector spaces fit together to form another space of the same kind as X (e.g. a topological space, manifold, or algebraic variety), which is then called a vector bundle over X. The simplest example is the case that the family of vector spaces is constant, i.e., there is a fixed vector space V such that V(x)=V for all x in X: in this case there is a copy of V for each x in X and these copies fit together to form the vector bundle X\times V over X. Such vector bundles are said to be ''trivial''. A more complicated (and prototypical) class of examples are the tangent bundles of smooth (or differentiable) manifolds: to every point of such a manifold w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genus (mathematics)
In mathematics, genus (plural genera) has a few different, but closely related, meanings. Intuitively, the genus is the number of "holes" of a surface. A sphere has genus 0, while a torus has genus 1. Topology Orientable surfaces The genus of a connected, orientable surface is an integer representing the maximum number of cuttings along non-intersecting closed simple curves without rendering the resultant manifold disconnected. It is equal to the number of handles on it. Alternatively, it can be defined in terms of the Euler characteristic ''χ'', via the relationship ''χ'' = 2 − 2''g'' for closed surfaces, where ''g'' is the genus. For surfaces with ''b'' boundary components, the equation reads ''χ'' = 2 − 2''g'' − ''b''. In layman's terms, it's the number of "holes" an object has ("holes" interpreted in the sense of doughnut holes; a hollow sphere would be considered as having zero holes in this sense). A torus has 1 such h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
