| Reviews |
| - 'Will be useful to graduate students as an introduction to arithmetic algebraic geometry, and to more advanced readers and experts in the field.' - EMS
- 'This book is unique in the current literature on algebraic and arithmetic geometry, therefore a highly welcome addition to it, and particularly suitable for readers who want to approach more specialized works in this field with more ease. The exposition is exceptionally lucid, rigorous, coherent and comprehensive.' - Zentralblatt MATH
- 'A thorough and far-reaching introduction to algebraic geometry in its scheme-theoretic setting ... The rich bibliography with nearly 100 references enhances the value of this textbook as a great introduction and source for research.' - Zentralblatt MATH
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| Description | | - Includes essential background methods
- Contains nearly 600 exercises to help students assimilate the information and test themselves
- Explains both theory and applications clearly
- Makes important current research accessible to graduate students
| This book is a general introduction to the theory of schemes, followed by applications to arithmetic surfaces and to the theory of reduction of algebraic curves.
The first part introduces basic objects such as schemes, morphisms, base change, local properties (normality, regularity, Zariski's Main Theorem). This is followed by the more global aspect: coherent sheaves and a finiteness
theorem for their cohomology groups. Then follows a chapter on sheaves of differentials, dualizing sheaves, and Grothendieck's duality theory. The first part ends with the theorem of Riemann-Roch and its application to the study of smooth projective curves over a field. Singular curves are treated through a detailed study of the Picard group.
The second part starts with blowing-ups and
desingularisation (embedded or not) of fibered surfaces over a Dedekind ring that leads on to intersection theory on arithmetic surfaces. Castelnuovo's criterion is proved and also the existence of the minimal regular model. This leads to the study of reduction of algebraic curves. The case of elliptic curves is studied in detail. The book concludes with the funadmental theorem of stable reduction
of Deligne-Mumford.
The book is essentially self-contained, including the necessary material on commutative algebra. The prerequisites are therefore few, and the book should suit a graduate student. It contains many examples and nearly 600 exercises.
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Readership: Graduate students in algebraic geometry and number theory
| Contents |
1.
Some topics in commutative algebra
2.
General properties of schemes
3.
Morphisms and base change
4.
Some local properties
5.
Coherent sheaves and Cech cohomology
6.
Sheaves of differentials
7.
Divisors and applications to curves
8.
Birational geometry of surfaces
9.
Regular surfaces
10.
Reduction of algebraic curves
Bibliography
Index
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Qing Liu, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Théorie des Nombres et d'Algorithmique Arithmétique, Université Bordeaux 1
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