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33 votes
11 answers
9k views

Why do we care about the Hilbert scheme of points?

26 votes
2 answers
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Are Donaldson-Thomas invariants "A-model" or "B-model" ?

25 votes
0 answers
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Status of the Euler characteristic in characteristic p

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2 answers
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Can I glue the X axis to the Y axis?

18 votes
0 answers
912 views

What is the relationship between Artin and Lurie representability?

16 votes
1 answer
2k views

What does "$H^*(X)$ is Hodge-Tate" mean?

15 votes
1 answer
632 views

When is a local Artin C-algebra a subring of C[t]/t^n

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0 answers
586 views

What is the determinant of Poincaré duality?

14 votes
0 answers
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Does the category of G-spectra know G?

14 votes
3 answers
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Is intersection homology the usual homology of something else?

13 votes
1 answer
759 views

Are homological knot invariants of finite type?

13 votes
1 answer
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Symmetric group irreps in tensor products of exterior products of the standard representation

13 votes
1 answer
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What's the cardinality of a higher category?

12 votes
0 answers
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The Markov trace via Bott-Samelson fibers?

12 votes
1 answer
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Chern numbers via Euler characteristics?

12 votes
8 answers
2k views

Who colored in my Dynkin diagrams?

11 votes
3 answers
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When do two positive braids represent the same link?

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0 answers
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Where is it shown that homotopy sheaves form a higher stack?

11 votes
1 answer
590 views

How do analysts think about functions with poles at all roots of unity?

11 votes
1 answer
522 views

Measure the failure of colimit to commute with taking free loops (or Hochschild homology)?

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What do the components of the global nilpotent cone look like?

10 votes
2 answers
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H*(braid group, irrep of symmetric group) = ?

10 votes
1 answer
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Ngo's support theorem & the Jacobian over the versal deformation of a planar curve

10 votes
3 answers
2k views

What is known about Higgs bundles with sections?

8 votes
1 answer
840 views

Semicontinuity for complexes

8 votes
1 answer
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Euler characteristics and characteristic classes for real manifolds?

8 votes
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331 views

What's the Hochschild homology of the category of constructible sheaves?

8 votes
2 answers
539 views

How do I find coefficients of a product expansion

8 votes
1 answer
754 views

What are the exact holomorphic Lagrangians in complex 2-space?

8 votes
1 answer
518 views

Does finiteness of hodge numbers imply properness?