Let G be a connected Lie group. We show that all characteristic classes of G are bounded—when viewed in the cohomology of the classifying space of the group G with the discrete topology—if and only if the derived group of the radical of G is simply connected in its Lie group topology. We also give equivalent conditions in terms of stable commutator length and distortion.

We introduce tropical vector bundles, morphisms and rational sections of these bundles and define the pull-back of a tropical vector bundle and of a rational section along a morphism. Most of the definitions presented here for tropical vector bundles will be contained in$Torchiani, C.$,$Line Bundles on Tropical Varieties$, Diploma thesis, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern,2010, for the case of line bundles. Afterwards we use the bounded rational sections of a tropical vector bundle to define the Chern classes of this bundle and prove some basic properties of Chern classes. Finally we give a complete classification of all vector bundles on an elliptic curve up to isomorphisms.

We prove that Mark Gross’ [8] topological Calabi-Yau compactifications can be made into symplectic compactifications. To prove this we develop a method to construct singular Lagrangian 3-torus fibrations over certain a priori given integral affine manifolds with singularities, which we call simple. This produces pairs of compact symplectic 6-manifolds homeomorphic to mirror pairs of Calabi-Yau 3-folds together with Lagrangian fibrations whose underlying integral affine structures are dual.

We give a holomorphic extension result for continuous CR functions on a non-generic CR submanifold$N$of ℂ^{$n$}to complex transversal wedges with edges containing$N$. We show that given any$v$∈ℂ^{$n$}∖($T$_{$p$}$N$+$iT$_{$p$}$N$), there exists a wedge of direction$v$whose edge contains a neighborhood of$p$in$N$, such that any continuous CR function defined locally near$p$extends holomorphically to that wedge.

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