For an irregular variety $X$ of general type, we show that if a general fiber $F$ of the Albanese morphism of $X$ satisfies certain Hodge theoretic condition, the $0$-th cohomological support loci of $K_X$ generates the Picard variety of $X$ . We the
n show that the condition that the $0$-th cohomological support loci of $K_X$ generates the Picard variety of $X$ can often be applied to prove the birationality of certain pluricanonical maps of $X$.
We develop the deformation theory of cohomological field theories (CohFTs), which is done as a special case of a general deformation theory of morphisms of modular operads. This leads us to introduce two new natural extensions of the notion of a CohF
T: homotopical (necessary to structure chain-level Gromov--Witten invariants) and quantum (with examples found in the works of Buryak--Rossi on integrable systems). We introduce a new version of Kontsevichs graph complex, enriched with tautological classes on the moduli spaces of stable curves. We use it to study a new universal deformation group which acts naturally on the moduli spaces of quantum homotopy CohFTs, by methods due to Merkulov--Willwacher. This group is shown to contain both the prounipotent Grothendieck--Teichmuller group and the Givental group.
We generalize a result of Orlov and Van den Bergh on the representability of a cohomological functor from the bounded derived category of a smooth projective variety over a field to the category of L-modules, to the case where L is a field extension
of the base field k of the variety X, with L of transcendence degree less than or equal to one or L purely transcendental of degree 2. This result can be applied to investigate the behavior of an exact functor between the bounded derived categories of coherent sheaves of X and Y, with X and Y smooth projective and Y of dimension less than or equal to one or Y a rational surface. We show that for any such F there exists a generic kernel A in the derived category of the product, such that F is isomorphic to the Fourier-Mukai transform with kernel A after composing both with the pullback to the generic point of Y.
This paper investigates the cohomological property of vector bundles on biprojective space. We will give a criterion for a vector bundle to be isomorphic to the tensor product of pullbacks of exterior products of differential sheaves.
In his 2011 paper, Teleman proved that a cohomological field theory on the moduli space $overline{mathcal{M}}_{g,n}$ of stable complex curves is uniquely determined by its restriction to the smooth part $mathcal{M}_{g,n}$, provided that the underlyin
g Frobenius algebra is semisimple. This leads to a classification of all semisimple cohomological field theories. The present paper, the outcome of the authors masters thesis, presents Telemans proof following his original paper. The author claims no originality: the main motivation has been to keep the exposition as complete and self-contained as possible.