Birational Geometry of Algebraic Varieties

Klappentext This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to the circle of ideas developed around Mori's program. Zusammenfassung This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to the circle of ideas developed around Mori's program! the prerequisites being only a basic knowledge of the algebraic geometry. It will be of great interest to graduate students and researchers working in algebraic geometry and related fields. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Rational curves and the canonical class; 2. Introduction to minimal model program; 3. Cone theorems; 4. Surface singularities; 5. Singularities of the minimal model program; 6. Three dimensional flops; 7. Semi-stable minimal models.

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• Authors: Janos Kollar, Janos Mori Kollar, Shigefumi Mori, Mori Shigefumi
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.09.1998
• EAN: 9780521632775
• ISBN: 978-0-521-63277-5
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics; Cambridge Tracts in Mathematic; Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Geometry