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This is a report on joint work with V. Srinivas and Simon Pepin Lehalleur. Recently, with Arpon Raksit, we have shown that for a smooth projective variety X over a field k, the quadratic Euler characteristic of X, an element of the Grothendieck-Witt ring of quadratic forms over k, can be computed via the cup product on Hodge cohomology followed by the canonical trace map. Following work of Carlson-Griffiths, this leads to an explicit formula for the quadratic Euler characteristic of a smooth projective hypersurface defined by a homogeneous polynomial F in terms of the Jacobian ring of F, as well as a similar formula for a smooth hypersurface in a weighted projective space. In some special cases, this leads to quadratic versions of classical conductor formulas with some mysterious and unexpected correction terms, even in characteristic zero.

Convex projective manifolds are a generalization of hyperbolic manifolds. Koszul showed that the set of holonomies of convex projective structures on a compact manifold is open in the representation variety. We will describe an extension of this result to convex projective manifolds whose ends are generalized cusps, due to Cooper-Long-Tillmann. Generalized cusps are certain ends of convex projective manifolds. They may contain both hyperbolic and parabolic elements. We will describe their classification (due to Ballas-Cooper-Leitner), and explain how generalized cusps turn out to be deformations of cusps of hyperbolic manifolds. We will also explore the moduli space of generalized cusps, it is a semi-algebraic set of dimension n^2-n, contractible, and may be studied using several different invariants. For the case of three manifolds, the moduli space is homeomorphic to R^2 times a cone on a solid torus.