{ "id": "0805.0681", "version": "v1", "published": "2008-05-06T09:57:25.000Z", "updated": "2008-05-06T09:57:25.000Z", "title": "The Euler characteristic as a polynomial in the Chern classes", "authors": [ "Cristina Bertone" ], "comment": "12 pages", "journal": "International Journal of Algebra, Vol. 2, 2008, no. 13-16, 757-769.", "categories": [ "math.AG", "math.CO" ], "abstract": "In this paper we obtain some explicit expressions for the Euler characteristic of a rank n coherent sheaf F on P^N and of its twists F(t) as polynomials in the Chern classes c_i(F), also giving algorithms for the computation. The employed methods use techniques of umbral calculus involving symmetric functions and Stirling numbers.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2008-05-06T09:57:25.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "14F05", "05A40" ], "keywords": [ "euler characteristic", "chern classes", "polynomial", "explicit expressions", "coherent sheaf" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 12, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2008arXiv0805.0681B" } } }