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Intersection theory and cobordism with a quadratic twist

Subject Area Mathematics
Term from 2020 to 2023
Project identifier Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 437860477
 
Final Report Year 2024

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In this project we obtain new results in algebraic geometry via methods stemming from A1-homotopy theory. Using this theory, classical invariants with integral values can be refined into quadratic forms-valued ones, which carry new arithmetic information. The results obtained concern three (related) topics: (a) Cohomology theories for algebraic varieties involving quadratic information: we constructed operations in Hermitian K-theory, a theory describing vector bundles equipped with a quadratic form. We also studied the notion of orientation for theories where the motivic Hopf map eta is inverted. (b) Isotropic motivic categories: those lie between the motivic (algebrogeometric) and classical (topological) theories. (c) Nisnevich classifying spaces of algebraic groups: their study permits to better understand invariants of the associated algebraic structures. This leads to generalisations of Smirnov-Vishik “subtle Stiefel-Whitney classes” of quadratic forms to the context of other linear algebraic groups.

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