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Record Nr.

UNINA9910963909703321

Autore

Kollar Janos

Titolo

Lectures on resolution of singularities / / Janos Kollar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, 2007

ISBN

9786612157745

9781282157743

1282157744

9781400827800

1400827809

Edizione

[Course Book]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (215 p.)

Collana

Annals of mathematics studies ; ; 166

Classificazione

SK 240

Disciplina

516.3/5

Soggetti

Singularities (Mathematics)

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 (p. 197-202) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Resolution for Curves -- Chapter 2. Resolution for Surfaces -- Chapter 3. Strong Resolution in Characteristic Zero -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Resolution of singularities is a powerful and frequently used tool in algebraic geometry. In this book, János Kollár provides a comprehensive treatment of the characteristic 0 case. He describes more than a dozen proofs for curves, many based on the original papers of Newton, Riemann, and Noether. Kollár goes back to the original sources and presents them in a modern context. He addresses three methods for surfaces, and gives a self-contained and entirely elementary proof of a strong and functorial resolution in all dimensions. Based on a series of lectures at Princeton University and written in an informal yet lucid style, this book is aimed at readers who are interested in both the historical roots of the modern methods and in a simple and transparent proof of this important theorem.