Generalized orbifold Euler characteristics on the Grothendieck ring of varieties with actions of finite groups

2019/06/05 by S. M. Gusein‐Zade, I. Luengo, Gusein-Zade, S. M. +3
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Mathematics · #18F30 #55M35 #Algebraic Geometry (math.AG) #Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory #Biological Activity of Diterpenoids and Biflavonoids #Commutative Algebra and Its Applications #FOS: Mathematics

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1906.01920

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Abstract

The notion of the orbifold Euler characteristic came from physics at the end of 80's. There were defined higher order versions of the orbifold Euler characteristic and generalized ("motivic") versions of them. In a previous paper the authors defined a notion of the Grothendieck ring K₀^{\rm fGr}(Var) of varieties with actions of finite groups on which the orbifold Euler characteristic and its higher order versions are homomorphisms to the ring of integers. Here we define the generalized orbifold Euler characteristic and higher order versions of it as ring homomorphisms from K₀^{\rm fGr}(Var) to the Grothendieck ring K₀(Var) of complex quasi-projective varieties and give some analogues of the classical Macdonald equations for the generating series of the Euler characteristics of the symmetric products of a space.

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