AbstractThe perverse (Leray) filtration captures key topological information of algebraic maps. Recent studies of integrable systems (e.g. Hitchin system, Beauville-Mukai system) suggests two common features of the perverse filtration of abelian fibrations:1) the perverse filtration is multiplicative with respect to the cup product;2) the perversity of tautological classes is governed by the Ch...
Abstract:The topological group of homeomorphisms of d-dimensional Euclidean space is a basic object in geometric topology, closely related to understanding the difference between diffeomorphisms and homeomorphisms of all d-dimensional manifolds (except when d=4). I will explain some methods that have been used for studying the algebraic topology of this group, and report on a recently obtained...