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Canonical reference for Chern characteristic classes

I'm a little uncertain about the definitions for Chern roots Chern classes Chern characters From perusing several discussions, I gather that if one correlates the nomenclature with that of ...
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Why can't we take three loops?

Apologies for the vague title and soft question. According to Etingof, Igor Frenkel once suggested that there are three "levels" to Lie theory, which I guess could be given the following names: No ...
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Cohomology of representation varieties

Perhaps this question is too general then I am sorry about this. My question is the following. Let $\pi$ be the fundamental group of a compact surface of genus $g$ (with if necessary $n$ punctures) ...
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Borel's presentation for the cohomology of a Flag Variety

If $G$ is a simple complex Lie group, $T\subset B\subset G$ is a choice of Borel and maximal torus, and $W$ is the Weyl group, then 1) $H^{*}(G/B,K)=K[T^{\vee}]/(K[T^\vee]^W_{+})$ and 2) $K[T^\vee]^...
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Cell decomposition for a variety not necessarily complete?

Let $X$ be an algebraic variety with a $\mathbb C^*$ action such that the fixpoints set is finite. By theorem 4.3 in the paper of Bialynicki-Birula "Some theorems on actions of algebraic groups", ...
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About decomposition theorem BBD with respect to some stratification

I want to follow up a question from here (how to deduce version 1.a. from version 1). I know a version of decomposition theorem BBD: Version 1. Let $f:X\to Y$ be a (surjective) proper map of complex ...
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