Birational Geometry, Rational Curves, and Arithmetic

Fedor Bogomolov

ISBN 10: 1493901583 / ISBN 13: 9781493901586

Editore: Springer New York, Springer New York, 2015

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book features recent developments in a rapidly growing area at the interface of higher-dimensional birational geometry and arithmetic geometry. It focuses on the geometry of spaces of rational curves, with an emphasis on applications to arithmetic questions. Classically, arithmetic is the study of rational or integral solutions of diophantine equations and geometry is the study of lines and conics. From the modern standpoint, arithmetic is the study of rational and integral points on algebraic varieties over nonclosed fields. A major insight of the 20th century was that arithmetic properties of an algebraic variety are tightly linked to the geometry of rational curves on the variety and how they vary in families.This collection of solicited survey and research papers is intended to serve as an introduction for graduate students and researchers interested in entering the field, and as a source of reference for experts working on related problems. Topics that will be addressed include: birational properties such as rationality, unirationality, and rational connectedness, existence of rational curves in prescribed homology classes, cones of rational curves on rationally connected and Calabi-Yau varieties, as well as related questions within the framework of the Minimal Model Program.

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• Titolo: Birational Geometry, Rational Curves, and Arithmetic
• Editore: Springer New York, Springer New York
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1493901583
• ISBN 13: 9781493901586
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 235 L x 155 A x 19 P (millimetri) 235 millimetri di larghezza per 155 millimetri di altezza per 19 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 505 grammi

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????This book features recent developments in a rapidly growing area at the interface of higher-dimensional birational geometry and arithmetic geometry. It focuses on the geometry of spaces of rational curves, with an emphasis on applications to arithmetic questions. Classically, arithmetic is the study of rational or integral solutions of diophantine equations and geometry is the study of lines and conics. From the modern standpoint, arithmetic is the study of rational and integral points on algebraic varieties over nonclosed fields. A major insight of the 20th century was that arithmetic properties of an algebraic variety are tightly linked to the geometry of rational curves on the variety and how they vary in families.

This collection of solicited survey and research papers is intended to serve as an introduction for graduate students and researchers interested in entering the field, and as a source of reference for experts working on related problems. Topics that will be addressed include: birational properties such as rationality, unirationality, and rational connectedness, existence of rational curves in prescribed homology classes, cones of rational curves on rationally connected and Calabi-Yau varieties, as well as related questions within the framework of the Minimal Model Program.

Informazioni sull?autore

F. Bogomolov is Professor at the Courant Institute, NYU. He is best known for his pioneering work on hyperkähler manifolds. B. Hassett is Professor and Chair of the department of Mathematics at Rice University. He published two books and around 50 papers on Algebraic and Arithmetic Geometry. Yuri Tschinkel is Professor at the Courant Institute, NYU and Director of the Mathematics and the Physical Sciences Division at the Simons Foundation.