Smooth Compactifications of Locally Symmetric Varieties

Informationen zum Autor Avner Ash is Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Boston College, Massachusetts. David Mumford is Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics at Brown University, Rhode Island. Michael Rapoport is Professor in the Mathematical Institute of the University of Bonn, Germany. Yung-sheng Tai is Associate Professor of Mathematics at Haverford College, Pennsylvania. Klappentext The classic presentation of a universal method for the resolution of a class of singularities in algebraic geometry. Zusammenfassung The new edition of this celebrated and long-unavailable book preserves the original book's content and structure and its unrivalled presentation of a universal method for the resolution of a class of singularities in algebraic geometry. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface to the second edition; Preface to the first edition; 1. Basics on torus embeddings: examples; 2. Polyhedral reduction theory in self-adjoint cones; 3. Compactifications of locally symmetric varieties; 4. Further developments; Supplementary bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: Avner Ash, Avner (Boston College Ash, Avner Mumford Ash, David Mumford, Michael Rapoport, Rapoport Michael, Yung-sheng Tai
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2010
• EAN: 9780521739559
• ISBN: 978-0-521-73955-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Cambridge Mathematical Library; Cambridge Mathematical Library
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Miscellaneous; MATHEMATICS / Topology, geometry