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Jul 11
11:30-12:30
Suraj Kulkarni | IMSc, Chennai
Euler class group and obstruction criterion for real affine varieties
In this talk, we will study the theory of the Euler class group, developed to study projective modules over Noetherian rings and to address the fundamental question of whether a projective module $P$ splits off a free summand of rank one. This question is motivated by obstruction theory in topology, which studies when vector bundles on smooth real manifolds admit nowhere vanishing section. We will define the Euler class group $E(A)$ for a ring $A$, and explain how to associate to a given projective module over $A$ a class in $E(A)$ whose vanishing provides an affirmative answer to our splitting question. As an application of Euler class theory, we will prove an obstruction criteria in terms of generic sections for projective modules over real affine varieties. This talk is primarily based on the foundational paper in this area by Bhatwadekar and Sridharan titled ``The Euler class group of a Noetherian ring", Compositio Math. 122 (2000).
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Jul 15
09:30-18:00
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