| Compact Complex Surfaces 1995 Edition Contributor(s): Barth, W. (Author), Hulek, K. (Author), Peters, Chris (Author) |
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ISBN: 3540008322 ISBN-13: 9783540008323 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $189.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2003 Annotation: The first edition of "Compact Complex Surfaces" was published in 1984 and has become one of the most important books on the subject. In this second enlarged edition the major developments of the last 20 years have been incorporated. The Enriques-Kodaira classification is carried out in the spirit of Mori theory and many new developments have been added, including new analytic tools as well as new algebraic methods such as the theorems of Bogomolov and Reider and their applications. A new section is devoted to the stunning results achieved by the introduction of Donaldson and Seiberg-Witten invariants. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Mathematics | Geometry - Algebraic - Mathematics | Algebra - Abstract - Mathematics | Mathematical Analysis |
| Dewey: 516.352 |
| LCCN: 2003063511 |
| Series: Ergebnisse der Mathematik Und Ihrer Grenzgebiete |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.78 lbs) 436 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In the 19 years which passed since the first edition was published, several important developments have taken place in the theory of surfaces. The most sensational one concerns the differentiable structure of surfaces. Twenty years ago very little was known about differentiable structures on 4-manifolds, but in the meantime Donaldson on the one hand and Seiberg and Witten on the other hand, have found, inspired by gauge theory, totally new invariants. Strikingly, together with the theory explained in this book these invariants yield a wealth of new results about the differentiable structure of algebraic surfaces. Other developments include the systematic use of nef-divisors (in ac- cordance with the progress made in the classification of higher dimensional algebraic varieties), a better understanding of Kahler structures on surfaces, and Reider's new approach to adjoint mappings. All these developments have been incorporated in the present edition, though the Donaldson and Seiberg-Witten theory only by way of examples. Of course we use the opportunity to correct some minor mistakes, which we ether have discovered ourselves or which were communicated to us by careful readers to whom we are much obliged. |