We prove a new formula for the Hirzebruch-Milnor classes of global complete intersections with arbitrary singularities describing the difference between the Hirzebruch classes and the virtual ones. This generalizes a formula for the Chern-Milnor classes in the hypersurface case that was conjectured by S. Yokura and was proved by A. Parusinski and P. Pragacz. It also generalizes a formula of J. ...

The second Veronese ideal In contains a natural complete intersection Jn generated by the principal 2-minors of a symmetric (n× n)-matrix. We determine subintersections of the primary decomposition of Jn where one intersectand is omitted. If In is omitted, the result is the other end of a complete intersection link as in liaison theory. These subintersections also yield interesting insights int...

The purpose of this paper is to address a number of issues raised by Avramov and Miller in a recent paper [1]. Let (R,m, k) be a Noetherian local ring of characteristic p > 0 with residue field k, and let φ : R → R be the the Frobenius homomorphism defined by φ(a) = a. For r ≥ 1, we denote by φrR the R-module structure on R via φ. That is, for a ∈ R and b ∈ φ r R, a · b = a r b. When R is a reg...

In this note, we prove that the Witten genus of nonsingular stringy complete intersections in product of complex projective spaces vanishes.

We reformulate the integrality property of the Poincaré inner product in the middle dimension, for an arbitrary Poincaré Q-algebra, in classical terms (discriminant and local invariants). When the algebra is 1-connected, we show that this property is the only obstruction to realizing it by a closed manifold, up to dimension 11. We reinterpret a result of Eisenbud and Levine on finite map germs,...

We show that symmetry in the vanishing of cohomology holds for graded modules over quantum complete intersections. Moreover, symmetry holds for all modules if the algebra is symmetric.

0.1. Topological properties of intersections of pairs and, more generally, of k-tuples of Schubert cells belonging to distinct Schubert cell decompositions of a flag space are of particular importance in representation theory and have been intensively studied during the last 15 years, see e.g. [BB, KL1, KL2, De1, GS]. Intersections of certain special arrangements of Schubert cells are related d...

A vanishing theorem is proved for`-adic cohomology with compact support on a singular aane complete intersection. As an application, it is shown that for an aane complete intersection deened over a nite eld of q elements, the reciprocal \poles" of the zeta function are always divisible by q as algebraic integers. A p-adic proof is also given, which leads to further q-divisibility of the poles o...