The first survey of its kind, written by internationally known, outstanding experts who developed substantial parts of the field. The book contains an introduction written by Remmert, describing the history of the subject, and is very useful to graduate students and researchers in complex analysis, algebraic geometry and differential geometry.
I. Local Theory of Complex Spaces.- II. Differential Calculus, Holomorphic Maps and Linear Structures on Complex Spaces.- III. Cohomology.- IV. Seminormal Complex Spaces.- V. Pseudoconvexity, the Levi Problem and Vanishing Theorems.- VI. Theory of q-Convexity and q-Concavity.- VII. Modifications.- VIII. Cycle Spaces.- IX. Extension of Analytic Objects.- Author Index.