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Matthew Schoenbauer

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arXiv2019

From partitions to Hodge numbers of Hilbert Schemes of Surfaces

We celebrate the 100th anniversary of Srinivasa Ramanujan's election as a Fellow of the Royal Society, which was largely based on his work with G. H. Hardy on the asymptotic properties of the partition function. After recalling this revolutionary work, marking the birth of the "circle method", we present a contemporary example of its legacy in topology. We deduce the equidistribution of Hodge numbers for Hilbert schemes of suitable smooth projective surfaces.

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arXiv2018

Exact Formulas for Invariants of Hilbert Schemes

A theorem of Göttsche establishes a connection between cohomological invariants of a complex projective surface $S$ and corresponding invariants of the Hilbert scheme of $n$ points on $S.$ This relationship is encoded in certain infinite product $q$-series which are essentially modular forms. Here we make use of the circle method to arrive at exact formulas for certain specializations of these $q$-series, yielding convergent series for the signature and Euler characteristic of these Hilbert schemes. We also analyze the asymptotic and distributional properties of the $q$-series' coefficients.

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arXiv2018

Relating Cut and Paste Invariants and TQFTs

In this paper, we shall be concerned with a relation between TQFTs and cut and paste invariants introduced by Karras, Kreck, Neumann and Ossa. Cut and paste invariants, or SK invariants, are functions on the set of smooth manifolds that are invariant under the cutting and pasting operation. Central to the work in this paper are also SKK invariants, whose values on cut and paste equivalent manifolds differ by an error term depending only on the glueing diffeomorphism. Here we investigate a surprisingly natural group homomorphism between the group of invertible TQFTs and the group of SKK invariants and describe how these groups fit into an exact sequence. We conclude in particular that all positive real-valued SKK invariants can be realized as restrictions of invertible TQFTs. All manifolds are smooth and oriented throughout unless stated otherwise.

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