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In this work we introduce an obstruction for the existence of symplectic structures on nilpotent Lie algebras. Indeed, a necessary condition is presented in terms of the cohomology of the Lie algebra. Using this obstruction we obtain both positive and negative results on the existence of symplectic structures on a larg…

Study rational cuspidal curves in projective surfaces with topological and algebraic obstructions.

In this paper, we consider an obstruction to asymptotic Chow-semistability of a polarized Kaehler algebraic manifold. Even when a linear algebraic group of positive dimension acts nontrivially and holomorphically on a polarized Kaehler algebraic manifold with constant scalar curvature, the vanishing of the obstruction …

Obstruction theory for complex bigraded differential algebras.

We define the quantization structures for Poisson algebras necessary to generalise Groenewold and Van Hove's result that there is no consistent quantization for the Poisson algebra of Euclidean phase space. Recently a similar obstruction was obtained for the sphere, though surprising enough there is no obstruction to t…

Describes Wall's finiteness obstruction.

Study on Mackenzie obstruction for transitive Lie algebroids, proving triviality for certain Lie algebras.

Classifies stable diffeomorphism of spin 4-manifolds with specific fundamental groups.

Study algebraic obstructions to knot-like complex realizability.

New techniques solve Riccati equations on 3D manifolds, finding 4th order metric obstructions.

We study a type of left-invariant structure on Lie groups, or equivalently on Lie algebras. We introduce obstructions to the existence of a hypo structure, namely the 5-dimensional geometry of hypersurfaces in manifolds with holonomy SU(3). The choice of a splitting g^*=V_1 + V_2, and the vanishing of certain associate…

We give a generalization of the notion of a Cartan-Ehresmann connection from Lie algebras to L-infinity algebras and use it to study the obstruction theory of lifts through higher String-like extensions of Lie algebras. We find (generalized) Chern-Simons and BF-theory functionals this way and describe aspects of their …

The purpose of this paper is to show how central extensions of (possibly infinite-dimensional) Lie algebras integrate to central extensions of étale Lie 2-groups. In finite dimensions, central extensions of Lie algebras integrate to central extensions of Lie groups, a fact which is due to the vanishing of π_2 for each …

Non-trivial Clifford bundle from loop space tangent bundle.

Simplified account of Kubota's work on codimension 2 index obstructions.

Study algebraic concordance for links using homology surgery and Blanchfield forms.

Develops deformation theory for symplectic foliations using $L_\infty$-algebras.

Study on deformations of pre-symplectic structures using an L-infinity algebra.

Paper finds a cohomological obstruction to compact Clifford-Klein forms existence.

Study on deformation cohomology for braided commutative structures.

Obstructs 2-torsion in rational knot concordance group.

Study on Goeritz equivalence in genus 2 Heegaard splitting of $S^3$.

Develops formal moduli theory for splitting complex supermanifolds.

The paper examines obstacles to extending deformation quantization of vector bundles.

We demonstrate an obstruction to finding certain splittings of four-manifolds along sufficiently twisted circle bundles over Riemann surfaces, arising from Seiberg-Witten theory. These obstructions are used to show a non-splitting result for algebraic surfaces of general type.

The study finds geometric obstructions for Einstein-Hilbert-Palatini theories.

The study examines obstructions to links being shake slice.

Study on deformations of symmetric spaces using Jordan algebras.

An introduction to the applications of algebraic surgery to the structure theory of high-dimensional topological manifolds.

The vanishing of Van Kampen's obstruction is known to be necessary and sufficient for embeddability of a simplicial n-complex into $R^{2n}$ for $n\neq 2$, and it was recently shown to be incomplete for $n=2$. We use algebraic-topological invariants of four-manifolds with boundary to introduce a sequence of higher embed…

We extract a nonnegative integer-valued invariant, which we call the "order of algebraic torsion", from the Symplectic Field Theory of a closed contact manifold, and show that its finiteness gives obstructions to the existence of symplectic fillings and exact symplectic cobordisms. A contact manifold has algebraic tors…

New maps help understand deformations of modules over Lie algebroids.

Obstructs Legendrian knots from being slices of concordances using doubly slice genus.

Kähler-Einstein metrics discussed, including existence and obstructions.

We prove that there are no nontrivial finite-dimensional Lie representations of certain Poisson algebras of polynomials on a compact symplectic manifold. This result is used to establish the existence of a universal obstruction to quantizing a compact symplectic manifold, regardless of the dimensionality of the represe…

Integrable Pfaffian systems invariant under Lie group actions have their cohomology equal to Lie algebra cohomology.

Study shows certain knots can't be sliced using 2-fold branched covers.

Wall's finiteness obstruction is an algebraic K-theory invariant which decides if a finitely dominated space is homotopy equivalent to a finite CW complex. The object of this survey is to describe the invariant (which was first formulated in 1965) and some of its many applications to the surgery classification of manif…

Browder-Novikov-Sullivan-Wall surgery theory investigates the homotopy types of manifolds, using a combination of algebra and topology. It is the aim of these notes to provide an introduction to the more algebraic aspects of the theory (such as the Wall surgery obstruction groups), without losing sight of the geometric…

Given a projective structure on a three-dimensional manifold, we find explicit obstructions to the local existence of a Levi-Civita connection in the projective class. These obstructions are given by projectively invariant tensors algebraically constructed from the projective Weyl curvature. We show, by examples, that …

Defines a new homomorphism for strongly invertible knots, proving equivariant algebraic concordance.

We show that the integrability obstruction of a transitive Lie algebroid coincides with the lifting obstruction of a crossed module of groupoids associated naturally with the given algebroid. Then we extend this result to general extensions of integrable transitive Lie algebroids by Lie algebra bundles. Such a lifting …

Block and Weinberger show that an arithmetic manifold can be endowed with a positive scalar curvature metric if and only if its $\rationals$-rank exceeds 2. We show in this article that these metrics are never in the same coarse class as the natural metric inherited from the base Lie group. Furthering the coarse $C^\as…

We present an avatar of the Euler obstruction to foliated structures on certain non-metric surfaces. This adumbrates (at least for the simplest 2D-configurations) that the standard mechanism---to the effect that the devil of algebra sometimes barricades the existence of angelic geometric structures (obstruction theory …

Abstract machinery finds obstructions to uniform positive scalar curvature.

New restrictions found on triple linking numbers of knot derivatives.

We apply Heegaard Floer homology to study deformations of singularities of plane algebraic curves. Our main result provides an obstruction to the existence of a deformation between two singularities. Generalizations include the case of multiple singularities. The obstruction is formulated in terms of a semicontinuity p…

We show that if H is a cocommutative Hopf algebra, then there is a natural action of Aut(F_n) on the nth tensor power of H which induces an Out(F_n) action on a quotient \overline{H^{\otimes n}}. In the case when H=T(V) is the tensor algebra, we show that the invariant Tr^C of the cokernel of the Johnson homomorphism s…