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Motivic Cohomology of Pairs of Simplices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 March 2004

Jianqiang Zhao
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Eckerd College, St Petersburg, FL 33711, USA. E-mail: zhaoj@eckerd.edu
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Abstract

For an arbitrary field $F$ we study the double scissors congruence groups $A_n(F)$ generated by admissible pairs of simplices in the projective $n$-space ${\mathbb P}_F^n$ over $F$. Let $(L, M)$ be an admissible pair of simplices whose faces are defined as hyperplanes in ${\mathbb P}_F^n$ such that they do not have common faces of the same dimension. When $L$ and $M$ are in general positions we define a linearly constructible motivic perverse sheaf producing a motivic cohomology whose Betti realization is the relative cohomology $H^{\ast}({\mathbb P}_F^n\setminus L, M\setminus L; {\mathbb Q})$. The motivic cohomology provides a simple explanation of why the generic part of $A_\bullet$ forms a Hopf algebra with well-defined coproduct. When $n = 2$ we define explicitly the coproduct on $A_2$ which simplifies the approach of Beilinson et al. We also complete the same task for $A_3$ and $A_4$ which enables us to develop further results in another paper connecting Aomoto trilogarithms to the classical ones.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
2004 London Mathematical Society

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Footnotes

This research was partially supported by NSF grant DMS0139813