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A Gauss-Bonnet Theorem for Asymptotically Conical Manifolds and Manifolds with Conical Singularities

Adrien Giuliano Marcone

The purpose of this thesis is to provide an intrinsic proof of a Gauss-Bonnet-Chern formula for complete Riemannian manifolds with finitely many conical singularities and asymptotically conical ends. A geometric invariant is associated to the link of both ...

EPFL2019

Characteristic classes as complete obstructions

Martina Rovelli

In the first part of this paper, we propose a uniform interpretation of characteristic classes as obstructions to the reduction of the structure group and to the existence of an equivariant extension of a certain homomorphism defined a priori only on a sin ...

SPRINGER HEIDELBERG2019

Topological states on the breathing kagome lattice

Adrien Bolens

We theoretically study the topological properties of the tight-binding model on the breathing kagome lattice with antisymmetric spin-orbit coupling (SOC) between nearest neighbors. We show that the system hosts nontrivial topological phases even without se ...

2019

Modular functors, cohomological field theories, and topological recursion

Nicolas Gerson Orantin

Given a topological modular functor V in the sense of Walker, we construct vector bundles Z (lambda) over bar, over (M) over bar (g,n) whose Chern characters define semi-simple cohomological field theories. This construction depends on a determinati ...

AMER MATHEMATICAL SOC2018

Towards new invariants for principal bundles

Martina Rovelli

We investigate the theory of principal bundles from a homotopical point of view. In the first part of the thesis, we prove a classification of principal bundles over a fixed base space, dual to the well-known classification of bundles with a fixed structur ...

EPFL2017

Eigenfunction expansions of ultradifferentiable functions and ultradistributions

Aparajita Dasgupta

In this paper we give a global characterisation of classes of ultradi_erentiable functions and corresponding ultradistributions on a compact manifold X. The characterisation is given in terms of the eigenfunction expansion of an elliptic operator on X. Thi ...

2016

Eigenfunction Expansions Of Ultradifferentiable Functions And Ultradistributions

Aparajita Dasgupta

In this paper we give a global characterisation of classes of ultradifferentiable functions and corresponding ultradistributions on a compact manifold X. The characterisation is given in terms of the eigenfunction expansion of an elliptic operator on X. Th ...

American Mathematical Society2016

Look, no beacons! Optimal all-in-one EchoSLAM

Martin Vetterli, Ivan Dokmanic, Miranda Krekovic

We study the problem of simultaneously reconstructing a polygonal room and a trajectory of a device equipped with a (nearly) collocated omnidirectional source and receiver. The device measures arrival times of echoes of pulses emitted by the source and pic ...

2016

Motivic invariants of moduli spaces of rank 2 Bradlow-Higgs triples

Riccardo Grandi

In the present thesis we study the geometry of the moduli spaces of Bradlow-Higgs triples on a smooth projective curve C. There is a family of stability conditions for triples that depends on a positive real parameter Ï. The moduli spaces of Ï-semistable ...

EPFL2016

Equivariant measurable liftings

Nicolas Monod

We discuss equivariance for linear liftings of measurable functions. Existence is established when a transformation group acts amenably, as e.g. the Mobius group of the projective line. Since the general proof is very simple but not explicit, we also provi ...

Polish Acad Sciences Inst Mathematics-Impan2015