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Record Nr.

UNINA9910144601603321

Autore

Gabber Ofer

Titolo

Almost Ring Theory / / by Ofer Gabber, Lorenzo Ramero

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2003

ISBN

3-540-45096-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2003.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VI, 318 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Mathematics, , 0075-8434 ; ; 1800

Disciplina

510

Soggetti

Algebra

Commutative algebra

Commutative rings

Algebraic geometry

Category theory (Mathematics)

Homological algebra

Field theory (Physics)

Commutative Rings and Algebras

Algebraic Geometry

Category Theory, Homological Algebra

Field Theory and Polynomials

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Homological Theory -- Almost Ring Theory -- Fine Study of Almost Projective Modules -- Henselian Pairs -- Valuation Theory -- Analytic Geometry -- Appendix -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book develops thorough and complete foundations for the method of almost etale extensions, which is at the basis of Faltings' approach to p-adic Hodge theory. The central notion is that of an "almost ring". Almost rings are the commutative unitary monoids in a tensor category obtained as a quotient V-Mod/S of the category V-Mod of modules over a fixed ring V; the subcategory S consists of all modules annihilated by a fixed ideal m of V, satisfying certain natural conditions. The reader is assumed to be familiar with general categorical notions, some basic commutative algebra and some



advanced homological algebra (derived categories, simplicial methods). Apart from these general prerequisites, the text is as self-contained as possible. One novel feature of the book - compared with Faltings' earlier treatment - is the systematic exploitation of the cotangent complex, especially for the study of deformations of almost algebras.