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Universal covering of symmetric product
Let $C$ be a 1-dimensional complex manifold whose universal covering is provided by the half-plane $\mathcal{H}=\{z \in \mathbb{C} \mid \operatorname{Im}z>0\}$. The symmetric product $C^{(n)} = C^n ...
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Differential refinement of homology
Differential cohomology is a refinement of ordinary cohomology by differential data. It's construction comes down to the observation that $H^2(M, \mathbb{Z})$ is isomorphic to the space of isomorphism ...
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The existence of the extension of a non-trivial line bundle
In Three Dimensional Gravity Revisted, Witten studied the Abelian Chern-Simons theory in three dimensions.
Let $W$ be a three dimensional manifold. Let $\mathcal{L}$ be a non-trivial line-bundle over ...
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Does there exist a preferred trivialization of a trivial line bundle?
Let $L\to M$ be a topologically trivial complex Hermitian line bundle (over a manifold of dimension three, if this is of any importance). I assume that $L$ admits a trivialization, however, I do not ...
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Restriction of a line bundle to a two-cycle
I am reading a paper on Chiral Differential Operators
http://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/0604179v3.pdf
and it says on page 23 that a line bundle over a manifold C can be characterized completely by its ...
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Birkhoff decomposition vanishing of the Chern numbers
Birkhoff decomposition vanishing of the Chern numbers of the holomorphic line bundles of the Birkhoff-Grothendieck decomposition, is some statement I read off in One of Connes papers. Without going ...
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Uniqueness on square root of complex Line Bundle
Let $L$ be a line bundle over a compex manifold $X$, a square-root of $L$ is a line bundle $M$ such that $M^{\otimes2}=L$. My question is when the square-root of Line Bundle is unique?
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line bundles and universal covers
When dealing with some lifting problems, I came across the following problem, which probably has a well-known answer, but anyway:
Suppose I have a (locally contractible) connected topological group $G$...
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Is the double-twisted Moebius strip isotopic to the trivial strip?
Abstractly, on the topological circle $S^1$ there are only two real line bundles, up to isomorphism: the trivial one $\mathcal{O}$ and the Moebius strip $\mathcal{O}(1)$ (thinking of $S^1$ as $\mathbb{...
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Cohomology theory for symplectic manifolds
Suppose I have a symplectic manifold $(M,\omega)$ and a line bundle $\mathcal L$ with a connection with curvature $\omega$ (or perhaps it's more standard to say $\frac i{2\pi}\omega$; anyway, the ...
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Can the class of the canonical bundle be recovered from the total space of the cotangent bundle if one forgets that it is a cotangent bundle?
This is a somewhat speculative question, so bear with that (or not, as is your preference).
Let $X$ be a smooth projective variety, and let $\omega_X$ be its canonical sheaf. The Euler class of ...