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Gelfand and MacPherson provided a new formula for calculating Pontrjagin classes.

Study Bernstein-Gelfand-Gelfand complexes on Lipschitz domains, computing cohomology and applying to elasticity models.

Extends Gelfand duality to various geometric and analytical categories.

We give a complete construction of the Bernstein-Gelfand-Gelfand complex on real or complex projective space using minimal ingredients.

This paper is devoted to the study of geometric structures modeled on homogeneous spaces G/P, where G is a real or complex semisimple Lie group and $P\subset G$ is a parabolic subgroup. We use methods from differential geometry and very elementary finite-dimensional representation theory to construct sequences of invar…

We give a simple construction of the Bernstein-Gelfand-Gelfand sequences of natural differential operators on a manifold equipped with a parabolic geometry. This method permits us to define the additional structure of a bilinear differential cup product on this sequence, satisfying a Leibniz rule up to curvature terms.…

Lecture notes on BGG complexes using Lie groups and algebras.

Novel proof technique for Gelfand-Fuks cohomology.

Solves index problem for curved BGG sequences in parabolic geometry.

The hemisphere rigidity theorem connects to the Gelfand problem, providing a precise value for the extremal parameter.

New Poisson bracket connects to logarithmic manifolds.

In this paper I give new elementary proofs of basic results of Gelfand, Kapranov and Zelevinskywhich express discriminants and resultants in terms of determinants of direct images of Cayley-Koszul complexes of sheaves.

Let U(n) be the unitary group, and $u(n)^*$ the dual of its Lie algebra, equipped with the Kirillov Poisson structure. In their 1983 paper, Guillemin-Sternberg introduced a densely defined Hamiltonian action of a torus of dimension $(n-1)n/2$ on $u(n)^*$, with moment map given by the Gelfand-Zeitlin coordinates. A few …

Using the Penrose transform, we construct analogues of the BGG (Bernstein-Gelfand-Gelfand) resolutions in certain singular infinitesimal characters, in the holomorphic geometric setting, over the Lagrangian Grassmannian. We prove the exactness of the constructed complex over the big affine cell.

The paper constructs a symplectic groupoid for a specific Poisson structure.

New finite element method for complex forms in any dimension.

We study the relations between the projective and the almost conformally symplectic structures on a smooth even dimensional manifold. We describe these relations by a single almost conformally symplectic connection with totally trace--free torsion sharing the geodesics (up to parametrization) with the projective class.…

On a symplectic manifold, there is a natural elliptic complex replacing the de Rham complex. It can be coupled to a vector bundle with connection and, when the curvature of this connection is constrained to be a multiple of the symplectic form, we find a new complex. In particular, on complex projective space with its …

Symplectic structure found on projective structures on surfaces with boundary.

This paper is devoted to an elementary new construction of $1$-singular Gelfand-Tsetlin modules using complex geometry. We introduce a universal ring $\mathcal D_o$ together with the vector space $\mathcal S=\mathcal S(\mathcal D_o)$ with basis $\mathcal B_o = \mathcal B(\mathcal D_o)$ formed from some local distributi…

For smooth manifolds equipped with various geometric structures, we construct complexes that replace the de Rham complex in providing an alternative fine resolution of the sheaf of locally constant functions. In case that the geometric structure is that of a parabolic geometry, our complexes coincide with the Bernstein…

We construct exact sequences of invariant differential operators acting on sections of certain homogeneous vector bundles in singular infinitesimal character, over the isotropic $2$-Grassmannian. This space is equal to $G/P$, where $G$ is $\operatorname{Sp}(2n,\mathbb{C})$, and $P$ its standard parabolic subgroup havin…

This article studies hypoellipticity on general filtered manifolds. We extend the Rockland criterion to a pseudodifferential calculus on filtered manifolds, construct a parametrix and describe its precise analytic structure. We use this result to study Rockland sequences, a notion generalizing elliptic sequences to fil…

Generalizes Gelfand's spectrum to monogenic spinor fields on compact Riemannian manifolds.

The study examines differential smoothness in specific Artin-Schelter regular algebras of dimension 5.

We propose a general strategy to derive null-homotopy operators for differential complexes based on the Bernstein-Gelfand-Gelfand (BGG) construction and properties of the de Rham complex. Focusing on the elasticity complex, we derive path integral operators $\mathscr{P}$ for elasticity satisfying $\mathscr{D}\mathscr{P…

In this paper we provide some stability criteria for systems of linear subspaces of $V \otimes W$ and for systems of quotient coherent sheaves, using, respectively, the Hilbert-Mumford numerical criterion and moment map. Along the way, we generalize the Gelfand-MacPherson correspondence [11] from point sets to sets of …

The study analyzes Dirac operators twisted by specific bundles, revealing their geometric and regularity properties.

This is an expanded version of a series of two lectures given at the IMA summer program "Symmetries and Overdetermined Systems of Partial Differential Equations". The main part of the article describes the Riemannian version of the prolongation procedure for certain overdetermined system obtained recently in joint work…

We introduce the notion of a ``projective hull'' for subsets of complex projective varieties, parallel to the idea of the polynomial hull in affine varieties. With this concept, a generalization of J. Wermer's classical theorem on the hull of a curve in $C^n$ is established in the projective setting. The projective hul…

The paper constructs discrete Hessian and divdiv complexes on triangulations and proves their cohomology isomorphic to continuous versions.

We prove the conjecture by Feigin, Fuchs and Gelfand describing the Lie algebra cohomology of formal vector fields on an $n$-dimensional space with coefficients in symmetric powers of the coadjoint representation. We also compute the cohomology of the Lie algebra of formal vector fields that preserve a given flag at th…

Following Losik's approach to Gelfand's formal geometry, certain characteristic classes for codimension-one foliations coming from the Gelfand-Fuchs cohomology are considered. Sufficient conditions for non-triviality in terms of dynamical properties of generators of the holonomy groups are found. The non-triviality for…

Let $Γ$ be a finite group acting linearly on a vector space $V$. We compute the Lie algebra cohomology of the Lie algebra of $Γ$-invariant formal vector fields on $V$. We use this computation to define characteristic classes for foliations on orbifolds.

CR Killing operator derived from tractor calculus for CR structures.

Researchers create compatibility complexes for Einstein metrics.

We suggest an algorithm allowing to obtain some new integral-geometric formulae from the existing formulae of Crofton type. These new formulae are applied to get smooth versions of BKK theorem. The algorithm is based on the calculations in the ring of normal densities on a manifold.

This is an extended version of a talk given at the conference "Algebra and Topology in Interaction" on the occasion of the 70th Anniversary of D.B. Fuchs at UC Davis in September 2009. It is a brief survey of an area originated around 1995 by I. Gelfand and the author.

The product of smooth valuations on manifolds is described in terms of differential forms, Gelfand transforms and blow-up spaces. It is shown that the product extends partially to generalized valuations and corresponds geometrically to transversal intersections. This result is used to prove a general kinematic formula …

We study direct limits $(G,K) = \varinjlim (G_n,K_n)$ of compact Gelfand pairs. First, we develop a criterion for a direct limit representation to be a multiplicity--free discrete direct sum of irreducible representations. Then we look at direct limits $G/K = \varinjlim G_n/K_n$ of compact riemannian symmetric spaces, …

We show that recently constructed invariants of 3-dimensional manifolds and of hyperkaehler manifolds (L.Rozansky and E.Witten, hep-th/9612216) come from characteristic classes of foliations and from Gelfand-Fuks cohomology. In particular, any symplectic foliation gives invariants of 3-manifolds. Our preprint has many …

This is the last part of a series of articles on a family of geometric structures (PACS-structures) which all have an underlying almost conformally symplectic structure. While the first part of the series was devoted to the general study of these structures, the second part focused on the case that the underlying struc…

We present the solution of a longstanding internal problem of noncommutative geometry, namely the computation of the index of a transversally elliptic operator on an arbitrary foliation. The new and crucial ingredient is a certain Hopf algebra associated to the transverse frame bundle. Its cyclic cohomology is defined …

Researchers explore valuations on polyhedra and topological arrangements without imposing algebraic structures.

We extend the definition of the Nijenhuis torsion of an endomorphism of a Lie algebroid to that of a relation, and we prove that the torsion of the relation defined by a bi-Hamiltonian structure vanishes. Following Gelfand and Dorfman, we then define Dirac pairs, and we analyze the relationship of this general notion w…

In this article we develop tools to compute the Geometric Quantization of a symplectic manifold with respect to a regular Lagrangian foliation via sheaf cohomology and obtain important new applications in the case of real polarizations. The starting point is the definition of representation spaces due to Kostant. Besid…

In the present article, we combine some techniques in the harmonic analysis together with the geometric approach given by modules over sheaves of rings of twisted differential operators ($\mathcal{D}$-modules), and reformulate the composition series and branching problems for objects in the Bernstein-Gelfand-Gelfand pa…

The paper explains how microlocal analysis solves geometric inverse problems.