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Record Nr.

UNINA9910483677403321

Autore

Mangolte Frédéric

Titolo

Real Algebraic Varieties / / by Frédéric Mangolte

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-43104-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVIII, 444 p. 60 illus., 28 illus. in color.)

Collana

Springer Monographs in Mathematics, , 2196-9922

Disciplina

516.35

Soggetti

Algebraic geometry

Manifolds (Mathematics)

Functions of complex variables

Algebraic Geometry

Manifolds and Cell Complexes

Several Complex Variables and Analytic Spaces

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- Introduction, Algebraic models of smooth manifolds -- 1. Algebraic varieties -- 2. R-varieties -- 3. Topology of varieties with an involution -- 4. Surfaces -- 5. Algebraic approximation -- 6. Three dimensional varieties -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Glossary of Notations -- Index -- List of Examples -- List of Figures.

Sommario/riassunto

This book gives a systematic presentation of real algebraic varieties. Real algebraic varieties are ubiquitous. They are the first objects encountered when learning of coordinates, then equations, but the systematic study of these objects, however elementary they may be, is formidable. This book is intended for two kinds of audiences: it accompanies the reader, familiar with algebra and geometry at the masters level, in learning the basics of this rich theory, as much as it brings to the most advanced reader many fundamental results often missing from the available literature, the “folklore”. In particular, the introduction of topological methods of the theory to non-specialists is one of the original features of the book. The first three chapters introduce the basis and classical methods of real and complex algebraic geometry. The last three chapters each focus on one more



specific aspect of real algebraic varieties. A panorama of classical knowledge is presented, as well as major developments of the last twenty years in the topology and geometry of varieties of dimension two and three, without forgetting curves, the central subject of Hilbert's famous sixteenth problem. Various levels of exercises are given, and the solutions of many of them are provided at the end of each chapter. .