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Cheyne Glass

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Homotopy-theoretic least squares regression

A presheaf of complexes is constructed on a category of weighted finite subsets of a fixed Euclidean space. To each object, a Koszul complex is assigned which resolves the coordinate ring of least squares solutions on that data set for a choice of particular model (ie ``y=mx+b''). In order to obtain a total \v{C}ech-theoretic complex where the $0$-cocycles resemble locally defined least squares solutions gluing together up to homotopy, the coefficient rings for the Koszul complexes over each subset are linearized near a least squares solution. While these new linearized complexes do not immediately assemble into a presheaf, additional change-of-coordinates maps restore functoriality. Evaluating this new presheaf of complexes on a cover, its total-degree-0-cocycles of this \v{C}ech-Koszul bicomplex reveals (higher) homotopies between the discrepancies of least squares solutions on (higher) overlaps. A toy example with 5 data points is worked out in full elementary detail.

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Hypercovers in Differential Geometry

In this paper we provide a simple proof that for several sites of interest in differential geometry, the local projective model structure and the \v{C}ech projective model structure are equal. In particular, this applies to the site of smooth manifolds with open covers and the site of cartesian spaces with good open covers. As an application, we show that for a presheaf of sets on these sites, applying the plus construction once is enough to sheafify.

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Cech - de Rham Chern character on the stack of holomorphic vector bundles

We provide a formula for the Chern character of a holomorphic vector bundle in the hyper-cohomology of the de Rham complex of holomorphic sheaves on a complex manifold. This Chern character can be thought of as a completion of the Chern character in Hodge cohomology obtained as the trace of the exponential of the Atiyah class, which is \v{C}ech closed, to one that is \v{C}ech-Del closed. Such a completion is a key step toward lifting O'Brian-Toledo-Tong invariants of coherent sheaves from Hodge cohomology to de Rham cohomology. An alternate approach toward the same end goal, instead using simplicial differential forms and Green complexes, can be found in Hosgood's works [Ho1, Ho2]. In the algebraic setting, and more generally for K\"{a}hler manifolds, where Hodge and de Rham cohomologies agree, such extensions are not necessary, whereas in the non-K\"{a}hler, or equivariant settings the two theories differ. We provide our formulae as a map of simplicial presheaves, which readily extend the results to the equivariant setting and beyond. This paper can be viewed as a sequel to [GMTZ1] which covered such a discussion in Hodge cohomology. As an aside, we give a conceptual understanding of how formulas obtained by Bott and Tu for Chern classes using transition functions and those from Chern-Weil theory using connections, are part of a natural unifying story.

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Topological Data Analysis via Undergraduate Linear Algebra

Topological Data Analysis has grown in popularity in recent years as a way to apply tools from algebraic topology to large data sets. One of the main tools in topological data analysis is persistent homology. This paper uses undergraduate linear algebra to provide explicit methods for, and examples of, computing persistent (co)homology.

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Chern character for infinity vector bundles

Coherent sheaves on general complex manifolds do not necessarily have resolutions by finite complexes of vector bundles. However D. Toledo and Y.L.L. Tong showed that one can resolve coherent sheaves by objects analogous to chain complexes of holomorphic vector bundles, whose cocycle relations are governed by a coherent infinite system of homotopies. In the modern language such objects are obtained by the infinity-sheafification of the simplicial presheaf of chain complexes of holomorphic vector bundles. We define a Chern character as a map of simplicial presheaves, whereby the connected components of its sheafification recovers the Chern character of Toledo and Tong. As a consequence our construction extends Toledo Tong and O'Brian Toledo Tong's definition of the Chern character to the settings of stacks and in particular the equivariant setting. Even in the classical setting of complex manifolds, the induced maps on higher homotopy groups provide new Chern-Simons, and higher Chern-Simons, invariants for coherent sheaves.

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The Hodge Chern character of holomorphic connections as a map of simplicial presheaves

We define a map of simplicial presheaves, the Chern character, that assigns to every sequence of composable non connection preserving isomorphisms of vector bundles with holomorphic connections an appropriate sequence of holomorphic forms. We apply this Chern character map to the Cech nerve of a good cover of a complex manifold and assemble the data by passing to the totalization to obtain a map of simplicial sets. In simplicial degree 0, this map gives a formula for the Chern character of a bundle in terms of the clutching functions. In simplicial degree 1, this map gives a formula for the Chern character of bundle maps. In each simplicial degree beyond 1, these invariants, defined in terms of the transition functions, govern the compatibilities between the invariants assigned in previous simplicial degrees. In addition to this, we also apply this Chern character to complex Lie groupoids to obtain invariants of bundles on them in terms of the simplicial data. For group actions, these invariants land in suitable complexes calculating various Hodge equivariant cohomologies. In contrast, the de Rham Chern character formula involves additional terms and will appear in a sequel paper. In a sense, these constructions build on a point of view of "characteristic classes in terms of transition functions" advocated by Raoul Bott, which has been addressed over the years in various forms and degrees, concerning the existence of formulae for the Hodge and de Rham characteristic classes of bundles solely in terms of their clutching functions.

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