We study the motive of the moduli spaces of rank two vector bundles on a curve. In the smooth case we obtain the Hodge numbers, intermediate Jacobians and number of points over a finite field as corollaries. In the singular case our computations yield the Poincaré–Hodge polynomial of Seshadri's smooth model.

Let X ⊂ $\mathbb P$4$\mathbb _C$ be a smooth hypersurface of degree d [ges ] 5, and let S ⊂ X be a smooth hyperplane section. Assume that there exists a non trivial cycle Z ∈ Pic(X) of degree 0, whose image in CH1(X) is in the kernel of the Abel–Jacobi map. The family of couples (X, S) containing such Z is a countable union of analytic varieties. We show that it has a unique component of maximal dimension, which is exaclty the locus of couples (X, S) satisfying the following condition: There exists a line Δ ⊂ S and a plane P ⊂ $\mathbb P$4$_{\mathbb C}$ such that P ∩ X = Δ, and Z = Δ − dh, where h is the class of the hyperplane section in CH1(S). The image of Z in CH1(X) is thus 0. This construction provides evidence for a conjecture by Nori which predicts that the Abel–Jacobi map for 1–cycles on X is injective.

It was proved by Ginzburg, Mirkovic and Vilonen that the G(O)-equivariant perverse sheaves on the affine Grassmannian of a connected reductive group G form a tensor category equivalent to the tensor category of finite dimensional representations of the dual group G∧. In this paper we construct explicitly the action of G∧ on the global cohomology of a perverse sheaf.

We demonstrate that a pair of additive quintic equations in at least 34 variables has a nontrivial integral solution, subject only to an 11-adic solubility hypothesis. This is achieved by an application of the Hardy–Littlewood method, for which we require a sharp estimate for a 33.998th moment of quintic exponential sums. We are able to employ p-adic iteration in a form that allows the estimation of such a mean value over a complete unit square, thereby providing an approach that is technically simpler than those of previous workers and flexible enough to be applied to related problems.

We show that, under conditions about the microcharacteristic variety of a coherent $\cal D$-module, the Cauchy problem is well-posed in the spaces of formal power series with Gevrey growth. We deduce that the filtration of the Irregularity Sheaf of a holonomic $\cal D$-module, which we defined in a previous work, is preserved under inverse image if some rather general geometric conditions are fullfilled.