Formal Bott-Thurston cocycle and part of a formal Riemann-Roch theorem

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Abstract: The Bott-Thurston cocycle is a 2-cocycle on the group of orientation-preserving diffeomorphisms of the circle. We introduce and study a formal analog of Bott-Thurston cocycle. The formal Bott-Thurston cocycle is a 2-cocycle on the group of continuous A-automorphisms of the algebra A((t)) of Laurent series over a commutative ring A with values in the group A∗ of invertible elements of A. We prove that the central extension given by the formal Bott-Thurston cocycle is equivalent to the 12-fold Baer sum of the determinantal central extension when A is a mathbbQ-algebra. As a consequence of this result we prove a part of new formal Riemann-Roch theorem. This Riemann-Roch theorem is applied to a ringed space on a separated scheme S over mathbbQ, where the structure sheaf of the ringed space is locally on S isomorphic to the sheaf mathcalOS((t)) and the transition automorphisms are continuous. Locally on S this ringed space corresponds to the punctured formal neighbourhood of a section of a smooth morphism to U of relative dimension 1, where an open subset UsubsetS.


Let \(A\) be a commutative ring and \(A((t))\) the algebra of Laurent series over \(A\). Using the concept of Contou-Carrère symbol (see [\textit{P. Deligne}, Publ. Math., Inst. Hautes Étud. Sci. 73, 147--181 (1991; Zbl 0749.14011)]), the author defines the formal Bott-Thurston cocycle as a certain 2-cocycle on the group of continuous \(A\)-automorphisms of \(A((t))\) taking values in the group of invertible elements of \(A\). The main result of the paper under review is a formal version of the Riemann-Roch theorem, applicable to separated schemes over \(\mathbb Q\). The proof is partly based on ideas and constructions similar to those discussed in [\textit{M. Kapranov} and \textit{É. Vasserot}, Ann. Sci. Éc. Norm. Supér. (4) 40, No. 1, 113--133 (2007; Zbl 1129.14022)].



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