Motives, Polylogarithms and Hodge Theory (Part II: Hodge Theory)

 

Edited by: Fedor Bogomolov & Ludmil Katzarkov

ISBN:1-57146-091-8

Year Published: 2002

Page: 334

Binding: Hardcover

Price: $65 (or $100 for a set consisting of both Part 1 and 2)

 

Description

 

The present volume contains papers of the participants in the International Press

Conference on Motives, polylogarithms and non-abelian Hodge theory

which took place at UC Irvine in June 1998. The conference commemorated

the twentieth anniversary of the remarkable Irvine lectures of Spencer Bloch on

"Higher regulators, algebraic K-theory and zeta functions of elliptic curves". The conference presented some of the best recent research in algebraic K-theory, Hodge theory, motivic cohomology and polylogarithms. The research program of the conference was organized around three main lecture series:

VladimirVoevodsky taught a minicourse overviewing the recent developments in motivic cohomology and motivic homotopy theory; Don Zagier lectured on new results describing the periods of holomorphic and non-holomorphic modular forms; and Carlos Simpson lectured on the theory of geometric n-stacks and its applications to the variational aspects of non-abelian Hodge theory.

 

 

Table of Contents

 

III HODGE THEORY

 

Algebraic aspects of higher nonabelian Hodge theory,

By Carlos Simpson

1 Introduction

2 Varieties with abelian fundamental group

3 Nonabelian cohomology

4 Zoology

5 Cartesian families and base change

6 Very presentable n-stacks

7 Geometric n-stacks

8 Formal groupoids of smooth type

9 Formal categories related to Hodge theory

10 Presentability and geometricity results

 

Higgs bundles, integrability, and holomorphic forms

By Donu Arapura

1 Consequences of the abelian theory

2 Higgs bundles and all that

3 A  Nonabelian Analogue of b1 = 2q

4 Quaternionic geometry and Lagrangian maps

5 Integrability of Hitchin'smap

6 Cohomology support loci

7 Characteristic Cones and Products of Higgs Bundles

8 Shafarevich Maps

9 Powers of the canonical bundle

 

Nonabelian (p, p) classes,

by Ludmil Katzarkov and Tony Pantev

1 Introduction

2 Preliminaries on D-varieties

3 Nonabelian Hodge structures

4 The Gauss-Manin connection

5 The main theorem

Appendix A. Tangent stacks

 

The structure of Kahler groups, I: second cohomology,

by Alexander Reznikov

0 Introduction

1 A geometric picture for rigid representations

2 Proof of the Superrigidity Lemma

3 Variation of Hodge structure, corresponding to

   rigid representations to SO(2, n)

4 Variations of Hodge structure, corresponding to a rigid representation

to Sp(4)

5 Variations of Hodge structure, corresponding to a rigid representation

to Sp(2n), and proof of the Superrigidity Lemma (3)

6 Regulators, I: proof of the Main Theorem

7 Regulators, II: proof of Theorems 0.1, 0.2

8 Nonrigid representations

9 Three-manifolds groups are not Kahler

10 Central extensions of lattices in PSU(2, 1)

11 Smooth hypersurfaces in ball quotients which are not K ,1)

 

Some Hodge theory from Lie algebras,

by Constantin Teleman

Introduction

1 Refresher on cyclic homology

2 Homology of gl(A)

3 Conjectures and some results for g(A)

4 Loop groups

5 Hodge-to de Rham spectral sequence for X