Vivek Shende

Berkeley, CA

http://math.berkeley.edu/~vivek

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Has a mole stored over a thousand earthworms in its underground larder?

zoology asked Mar 19, 2022 at 21:43

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Why do we care about the Hilbert scheme of points?

ag.algebraic-geometry asked Sep 27, 2010 at 15:20

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26 votes

Are Donaldson-Thomas invariants "A-model" or "B-model" ?

ag.algebraic-geometry string-theory mirror-symmetry asked Jul 4, 2012 at 15:29

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25 votes

Status of the Euler characteristic in characteristic p

ag.algebraic-geometry characteristic-p characteristic-classes euler-characteristics asked Jul 7, 2013 at 7:32

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20 votes

Can I glue the X axis to the Y axis?

ag.algebraic-geometry asked Apr 2, 2021 at 12:04

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18 votes

What is the relationship between Artin and Lurie representability?

ag.algebraic-geometry derived-algebraic-geometry asked Nov 28, 2019 at 20:54

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16 votes

What is the determinant of Poincaré duality?

at.algebraic-topology gt.geometric-topology asked Jun 30, 2014 at 23:28

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What does "$H^*(X)$ is Hodge-Tate" mean?

ag.algebraic-geometry asked Feb 4, 2013 at 0:50

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15 votes

When is a local Artin C-algebra a subring of C[t]/t^n

ac.commutative-algebra artin-ring asked Nov 25, 2010 at 17:40

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Is intersection homology the usual homology of something else?

at.algebraic-topology asked Dec 2, 2010 at 21:53

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Jokes in the sense of Littlewood: examples?

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What are examples of (collections of) papers which "close" a field?

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Math Annotate Platform?

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Thinking and Explaining

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Is it okay to mention a mathematical fact that intrigues me in SOP when I don't understand its technical details?

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Building a genus-$n$ torus from cubes

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Lemma 1 from Beilinson's "Coherent Sheaves on $\mathbb{P}^n$ and Problems of Linear Algebra", intuition?

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How has modern algebraic geometry affected other areas of math?

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What is the Euler characteristic of a Hilbert scheme of points of a singular algebraic curve?

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Has anything precise been written about the Fukaya category and Lagrangian skeletons?

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Definition of "Lagrangian skeleton"

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Twist in identification with singular cohomology

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What's better: paper rejected from a strong conference or a paper accepted into a weak conference?

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Individual mathematical objects whose study amounts to a (sub)discipline?

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Injective morphism from curves to $\mathbb CP^2$

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Symmetric powers of a curve = projective bundle over Jacobian, and the relative version thereof

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Optimal definition of "paving by affine spaces"?

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monodromy of plane curve singularities

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Doing PhD with a 'star' professor

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Understanding an involution of the category of perverse sheaves on $\mathbb{C}$

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Linearization instability and singular points of algebraic varieties

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Physical interpretations/meanings of the notion of a sheaf?

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Singularities of space curves: Open question lists?

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vanishing of vector field in infinite dimensions

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Analytic vs. formal vs. étale singularities

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Is the Euler characteristic of a certain nonlinear variety related to that of a certain linear variety?

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Wrapped Fukaya categories of Stein manifolds

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What is Known about the $K$-Theory of Fukaya Categories?

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