Localized Chern class

In algebraic geometry, a localized Chern class is a variant of a Chern class, that is defined for a chain complex of vector bundles as opposed to a single vector bundle. It was originally introduced in Fulton's intersection theory,[1] as an algebraic counterpart of the similar construction in algebraic topology. The notion is used in particular in the Riemann–Roch-type theorem.

S. Bloch later generalized the notion in the context of arithmetic schemes (schemes over a Dedekind domain) for the purpose of giving #Bloch's conductor formula that computes the non-constancy of Euler characteristic of a degenerating family of algebraic varieties (in the mixed characteristic case).

Definitions

Let Y be a pure-dimensional regular scheme of finite type over a field or discrete valuation ring and X a closed subscheme. Let denote a complex of vector bundles on Y

that is exact on . The localized Chern class of this complex is a class in the bivariant Chow group of defined as follows. Let denote the tautological bundle of the Grassmann bundle of rank subbundles of . Let . Then the i-th localized Chern class is defined by the formula:

where is the projection and is a cycle obtained from by the so-called graph construction.

Example: localized Euler class

Let be as in #Definitions. If S is smooth over a field, then the localized Chern class coincides with the class

where, roughly, is the section determined by the differential of f and (thus) is the class of the singular locus of f.

Bloch's conductor formula

References

  1. Fulton 1998, Example 18.1.3.
  • S. Bloch, “Cycles on arithmetic schemes and Euler characteristics of curves,” Algebraic geometry, Bowdoin, 1985, 421–450, Proc. Symp. Pure Math. 46, Part 2, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1987.
  • Fulton, William (1998), Intersection theory, Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete. 3. Folge. A Series of Modern Surveys in Mathematics [Results in Mathematics and Related Areas. 3rd Series. A Series of Modern Surveys in Mathematics], 2, Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-540-62046-4, MR 1644323, section B.7
  • K. Kato and T. Saito, “On the conductor formula of Bloch,” Publ. Math. IHES 100 (2005), 5-151.


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