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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788609903321

Autore

Persson Ulf <1950->

Titolo

On degenerations of algebraic surfaces / / Ulf Persson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence : , : American Mathematical Society, , [1977]

©1977

ISBN

1-4704-0103-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (163 p.)

Collana

Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society ; ; number 189

Disciplina

512/.33

Soggetti

Surfaces, Algebraic - Degenerations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Table of Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""I. A brief survey of the structure and classification of surfaces""; ""Ruled surfaces""; ""Elliptic surfaces""; ""The classification table of surfaces""; ""II. The structure of a degeneration""; ""1. The singular fiber""; ""2. The local behavior near the singular fiber""; ""3. The global structure of N close to N[sub(0)]""; ""4. Intersection theory on N and its applications""; ""5. The Mayer-Vietoris spectral sequence, and the calculations of the Betti numbers of the general fiber in terms of the special""; ""6. Projective Degenerations""

""7. Mixed Hodge structures and the Clemens-Schmid exact sequence""""III. Degenerations of surfaces""; ""1. Specializations of birational isomorphisms and some of its applications""; ""2. Degenerations of elliptic surfaces""; ""3. Degenerations of minimal N = 0 surfaces in the case of no triple points""; ""IV. Lemmas on Curves on Surfaces""; ""V. Deformations of two surfaces meeting along a non-singular curve""; ""1. C is rational""; ""2. C is nonrational""; ""Bibliography""; ""Appendix 1. Elementary examples of degenerations""; ""Appendix 2. A degeneration of Enriques surfaces""

""Appendix 3. A degeneration of Godeaux surfaces""""Appendix 4. The index of cruciality for elliptic curves in elliptic ruled surfaces""; ""Bibliography of the appendix""; ""List of symbols and notational conventions""; ""Index""