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56 votes
3 answers
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What are the benefits of viewing a sheaf from the "espace étalé" perspective?

51 votes
3 answers
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What is the purpose of the flat/fppf/fpqc topologies?

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3 answers
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Is there a nice explanation for this curious fact about cyclic subgroups?

8 votes
3 answers
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Why can we define the moment map in this way (i.e. why is this form exact)?

6 votes
3 answers
3k views

What is this restricted sum of multinomial coefficients?

13 votes
1 answer
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Why isn't the orbifold cohomology of $pt/G$ equal to the cohomology of $BG$?

16 votes
3 answers
2k views

How do modular forms of half-integral weight relate to the (quasi-modular) Eisenstein series?

7 votes
2 answers
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What is a good reference (preferably thorough) for the Derived Category of a scheme/orbifold/stack?

10 votes
1 answer
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What is the geometry behind psi classes in Gromov-Witten theory?

7 votes
2 answers
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Is there any literature on multivariable theta functions?

3 votes
1 answer
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How do you construct a symplectic basis on a lattice?

12 votes
2 answers
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What classes am I missing in the Picard lattice of a Kummer K3 surface?

16 votes
0 answers
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How many sporadic simple groups are there, really?

3 votes
2 answers
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Is there a lower bound for the computational complexity of the traveling salesman problem?

9 votes
3 answers
982 views

Is there an intrinsic way to define the group law on Abelian varieties?

7 votes
1 answer
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Trivial obstructions and virtual fundamental classes

2 votes
2 answers
926 views

What is the difference between the moduli space of curves and the moduli space of orbi-curves?

16 votes
1 answer
869 views

Can one determine the dimension of a manifold given its 1-skeleton?

4 votes
2 answers
830 views

What literature is known about MacMahon's generalized sum-of-divisors function?

8 votes
1 answer
758 views

To what extent does Poincare duality hold on moduli stacks?

4 votes
2 answers
734 views

What is a reference for the Hasse-Minkowski classification of indefinite forms?

9 votes
1 answer
700 views

How do the rings of level $N$ quasi-modular forms related to the rings of modular forms?

13 votes
1 answer
627 views

What relations exist among (quasi-) modular forms of different levels?

14 votes
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520 views

Am I missing something about this notion of Mirror Symmetry for abelian varieties?

1 vote
1 answer
494 views

Is there a nice choice-free argument to count the number of sublattices?

3 votes
2 answers
422 views

Is there a nice generating function proof of the following identity?

8 votes
0 answers
392 views

Mirror symmetry for polarized abelian surfaces and Shioda-Inose K3s

21 votes
1 answer
320 views

How many ways can I factor a matrix (over $\mathbb{Z}$)?

3 votes
1 answer
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Is there a nice way to write the generating function obtained by taking the quadratic coefficients of another one?

10 votes
1 answer
290 views

What can we say about tropical maps $\mathbb{P}^1 \to A$ for an Abelian variety $A$?