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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828844303321

Titolo

Topics in algebraic geometry and geometric modeling : Workshop on Algebraic Geometry and Geometric Modeling, July 29-August 2, 2002, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania / / Ron Goldman, Rimvydas Krasauskas, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [2003]

©2003

ISBN

0-8218-7924-3

0-8218-5669-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (378 p.)

Collana

Contemporary mathematics ; ; 334

Disciplina

516.3/5

Soggetti

Curves on surfaces - Mathematical models

Geometry, Algebraic

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

""3. Examples of Toric Varieties""""4. Cones""; ""5. Affine Toric Varieties""; ""6. Coordinate Rings""; ""7. Normality""; ""8. Fans and Toric Varieties""; ""9. Properties of Toric Varieties""; ""10. Homogeneous Coordinates""; ""11. Examples of Homogeneous Coordinates""; ""12. The Toric Variety of a Polytope""; ""13. Polytopes and Homogeneous Coordinates""; ""Toric ideals, real toric varieties, and the moment map""; ""1. Projective Toric Varieties""; ""2. Toric Ideals""; ""3. Linear Projections""; ""4. Rational Varieties""; ""5. Implicit Degree of a Toric Variety""

""6. The Real Part of a Toric Variety""""7. The Double Pillow""; ""8. Linear Precision and the Moment Map""; ""Universal rational parametrizations and toric varieties""; ""Real structures on smooth compact toric surfaces""; ""Mixed Volume and Resultants""; ""Why polyhedra matter in non-linear equation solving""; ""Using projection operators in computer aided geometric design""; ""On combinatorial coefficients and the Gelfond�Khovanskii residue formula""; ""On the determination of the degree of an equation obtained by elimination""; ""Index""