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Record Nr.

UNISA996202187503316

Titolo

Berkovich Spaces and Applications [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Antoine Ducros, Charles Favre, Johannes Nicaise

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

3-319-11029-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIX, 413 p. 18 illus.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Mathematics, , 0075-8434 ; ; 2119

Disciplina

516.3

Soggetti

Algebraic geometry

Dynamics

Ergodic theory

Topological groups

Lie groups

Algebraic Geometry

Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory

Topological Groups, Lie Groups

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction to Berkovich analytic spaces -- Etale cohomology of schemes and analytic spaces -- Countability properties of Berkovich spaces -- Cohomological finiteness of proper morphisms in algebraic geometry: a purely transcendental proof, without projective tools -- Bruhat-Tits buildings and analytic geometry -- Dynamics on Berkovich spaces in low dimensions -- Compactifications of spaces of representations (after Culler, Morgan and Shalen).

Sommario/riassunto

We present an introduction to Berkovich’s theory of non-archimedean analytic spaces that emphasizes its applications in various fields. The first part contains surveys of a foundational nature, including an introduction to Berkovich analytic spaces by M. Temkin, and to étale cohomology by A. Ducros, as well as a short note by C. Favre on the topology of some Berkovich spaces. The second part focuses on applications to geometry. A second text by A. Ducros contains a new proof of the fact that the higher direct images of a coherent sheaf



under a proper map are coherent, and B. Rémy, A. Thuillier and A. Werner provide an overview of their work on the compactification of Bruhat-Tits buildings using Berkovich analytic geometry. The third and final part explores the relationship between non-archimedean geometry and dynamics. A contribution by M. Jonsson contains a thorough discussion of non-archimedean dynamical systems in dimension 1 and 2. Finally a survey by J.-P. Otal gives an account of Morgan-Shalen's theory of compactification of character varieties. This book will provide the reader with enough material on the basic concepts and constructions related to Berkovich spaces to move on to more advanced research articles on the subject. We also hope that the applications presented here will inspire the reader to discover new settings where these beautiful and intricate objects might arise.