The Lefschetz Centennial Conference : proceedings on algebraic topology : proceedings of the Lefschetz Centennial Conference held December 10-14, 1984 / / D. Sundararaman, editor

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910828510603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [1987]; ©1987
• ISBN: 0-8218-7646-5; 0-8218-5401-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Collana: Contemporary mathematics, , 0271-4132 ; ; 58 1 , 0271-4132
• Disciplina: 512/.33
• Soggetti: Geometry, Algebraic; Algebraic topology; Differential equations
• 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.
• Nota di contenuto: Table of Contents -- Preface -- A page of mathematical autobiography -- Solomon Lefschetz -- Multiplicity structures on space curves -- Algebraic cycles and the Beilinson conjectures -- The infinitesimal Abel-Jacobi mapping for hypersurfaces -- Infinite Coxeter groups and automorphisms of algebraic surfaces -- A problem about polynomial ideals -- Local Torelli theorem for certain extremal varieties -- Transverse deformations of holomorphic foliations -- Singularities of algebraic surfaces and characteristic numbers -- Metrics on moduli spaces -- Varieties with rational singularities -- Remarks on moduli spaces of complete intersections -- The Schottky groups in higher dimensions -- Cohomology on complex homogeneous manifolds with compact subvarieties -- Some applications of the Lefschetz fixed point theorems in (complex) -- Stability of two-dimensional local rings. II -- The connection between linear series on curves and Gauss maps on -- Some applications of algebraic geometry to systems of partial differential equations and to approximation theory -- Small points and torsion points -- Green's theory of Chern classes and the Riemann-Roch formula.