Formes de Whitney et primitives relatives de formes differentielles sous-analytiques

Let $X$ be a real-analytic manifold and $gcolon Xto{mathbf R}^n$ a proper triangulable subanalytic map. Given a subanalytic $r$-form $omega$ on $X$ whose pull-back to every non singular fiber of $g$ is exact, we show tha $omega$ has a relative primitive: there is a subanalytic $(r-1)$-form $Omega$ such that $dgLambda (omega-dOmega)=0$. The proof uses a subanalytic triangulation to translate the problem in terms of relative Whitney forms associated to prisms. Using the combinatorics of Whitney forms, we show that the result ultimately follows from the subanaliticity of solutions of a special linear partial differential equation. The work was inspired by a question of Franc{c}ois Treves.

Toric Geometry and the Semple-Nash modification

This paper proposes some material towards a theory of general toric varieties without the assumption of normality. Their combinatorial description involves a fan to which is attached a set of semigroups subjected to gluing-up conditions. In particular it contains a combinatorial construction of the blowing up of a sheaf of monomial ideals on a toric variety. In the second part it is shown that over an algebraically closed base field of zero characteristic the Semple-Nash modification of a general toric variety is isomorphic to the blowing up of the sheaf of logarithmic jacobian ideals and that in any characteristic this blowing-up is an isomorphism if and only if the toric variety is non singular. In the second part we prove that orders on the lattice of monomials (toric valuations) of maximal rank are uniformized by iterated Sempla-Nash modifications.