Algebraic Geometry of Topological Spaces I

Details Algebraic Geometry of Topological Spaces I Algebraic Geometry of Topological Spaces I

2009-12-18

arxiv.org/abs/0912.3635v3

Mathematics

Rings and Algebras

41 pages, no figures. New version fixes technical mistake in section 7.1 of the previous one

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We use techniques from both real and complex algebraic geometry to study K-theoretic and related invariants of the algebra C(X) of continuous complex-valued functions on a compact Hausdorff topological space X. For example, we prove a parametrized version of a theorem of Joseph Gubeladze; we show that if M is a countable, abelian, cancellative, torsion-free, seminormal monoid, and X is contractible, then every finitely generated projective module over C(X)[M] is free. The particular case when M=N^n gives a parametrized version of the celebrated theorem proved independently by Daniel Quillen and Andrei Suslin that finitely generated projective modules over a polynomial ring over a field are free. The conjecture of Jonathan Rosenberg which predicts the homotopy invariance of the negative algebraic K-theory of C(X) follows from the particular case when M=Z^n. We also give algebraic conditions for a functor from commutative algebras to abelian groups to be homotopy invariant on C*-algebras, and for a homology theory of commutative algebras to vanish on C*-algebras. These criteria have numerous applications. For example, the vanishing criterion applied to nil-K-theory implies that commutative C*-algebras are K-regular. As another application, we show that the familiar formulas of Hochschild-Kostant-Rosenberg and Loday-Quillen for the algebraic Hochschild and cyclic homology of the coordinate ring of a smooth algebraic variety remain valid for the algebraic Hochschild and cyclic homology of C(X). Applications to the conjectures of Beilinson-Soule and Farrell-Jones are also given.

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