Project description

Classical algebraic topology pursues the classification of topological manifolds and spaces with the aid of algebraic invariants. Especially interesting ones are the representable algebraic invariants, also known as cohomology theories, whose representing object (known as a spectrum) may be seen as a topological space endowed with a particularly nice type of addition law. The collection of all spectra forms the stable homotopy category and this viewpoint has led to quite amazing progress in the original classification problem. In contrast to algebraic topology, algebraic geometry deals with the considerably more inflexible algebraic manifolds, given locally as the solutions of polynomial equations. In the 1990s, Fabien Morel and Vladimir Voevodsky extended the topological approach via generalised cohomology theories to the setting of algebraic geometry, initiating a great deal of new research in this direction. This research furnished a framework for the construction and study of many very interesting cohomology theories on algebraic manifolds, now known as motivic stable homotopy category over a field or more generally over a base-scheme. For the study of these algebraic invariants, a technical tool, the use of filtrations, is essential. In the topological setting, the use of many different filtrations, or towers, have been used and played off against each other in order to gain a better theoretic understanding of basic objects of study, as well as for making concrete computations. The motivic stable homotopy category has given rise to many such filtrations, some direct generalisations of the topological ones, others quite new, whose study in the last decade has brought astounding results. The goal of this project is to study several of these motivic filtrations and to use their properties to achieve concrete results. Especially important examples for study are Voevodsky’s slice filtration and the filtrations by connectivity. These filtrations and their relation with one another should be helpful in understanding algebraic K-theory, cooperations for mod p motivic cohomology, homotopy sheaves of the sphere-spectrum, as well as motivic orientations, generalising the classical Todd genus.

Related publications

Published articles

Alexander D. Rahm, Bui Anh Tuan, Matthias Wendt. The Farrell-Tate and Bredon homology for \(PSL_4(\mathbb{Z})\) via rigid facets subdivision. J. Pure Appl. Alg. 223 (7), 2019, pp. 2872-2888, arXiv:1611.06099v2.

Matthias Wendt. Variations in \(\mathbb{A}^1\) on a theme of Mohan Kumar. arXiv:1704.00141v1, (to appear in Int. Math. Res. Not. IMRN

Aravind Asok, Marc Hoyois und Matthias Wendt. Generically split octonion algebras and \(\mathbb{A}^1\)-homotopy theory. Algebra Number Theory 13 (3), 2019, pp. 695-747, arXiv:1704.03657v1.

Jens Hornbostel und Matthias Wendt. Chow-Witt rings of classifying spaces of symplectic and special linear groups. J. Topol. 12 (3), 2019, pp. 915-965, arXiv:1703.05362v2.

Matthias Wendt. Oriented Schubert calculus in Chow-Witt rings of Grassmannians. In: Motivic homotopy theory and refined enumerative geometry. F. Binda, M. Levine, M.T. Nguyen and O. Röndigs, eds., Contemporary Math. 745, 2020, pp. 217-267, arXiv:1808.07296v1.

Elden Elmanto, Marc Hoyois, Adeel A. Khan, Vladimir Sosnilo, Maria Yakerson. Modules over algebraic cobordism. arXiv:1908.02162, to appear in Forum of Mathematics, Pi.

Maria Yakerson. The unit map of the algebraic special linear cobordism spectrum. arXiv:1908.03859, to appear, Journal of the Institute of Mathematics of Jussieu.

L. Fu, M.T. Nguyen. Orbifold products for higher K-theory and motivic cohomology. Documenta Mathematica 24 (2019), 1769-1810 Link

F. Binda, M. Levine, M.T.~Nguyen, O. Röndigs (editors). > Motivic homotopy theory and refined enumerative geometry. Contemporary Mathematics 745 (2020), AMS.

JJ.I. Kylling, O.~Röndigs und P.A. Østvær. Hermitian \(K\)- theory, Dedekind} \(\zeta\)- functions, and quadratic forms over rings of integers in number fields. Camb. J. Math. 8, no. 3 (2020), 505--607.

M. Spitzweck}. A commutative \(\mathbb{P}^1\)-spectrum representing motivic cohomology over Dedekind domains. Mém. Soc. Math. Fr. (N.S.) No. 157 (2018), 110 pp.

M. Spitzweck Algebraic cobordism in mixed characteristic. Homology Homotopy Appl. 22 (2020), no. 2, 91-103.

Marc Levine, Yaping Yang, Gufang Zhao. Algebraic elliptic cohomology and flops II: SL-cobordism. Adv. Math. 384 (2021), Paper No. 107726.

Preprints

Wofgang Soergel, Rahbar Virk and Matthias Wendt. Equivariant motives and geometric representation theory. (with an appendix by Fritz Hörmann). Preprint 2018 arXiv:1809.05480.

Matthias Wendt. On motivic obstructions to Witt cancellation over schemes. Preprint 2018. arXiv:1810.04228.