Smooth Compactifications of Locally Symmetric Varieties
2nd Edition
Published on 14. January 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-0-521-73955-9 (ISBN)
Description
The new edition of this celebrated and long-unavailable book preserves the original book's content and structure and its unrivalled presentation of a universal method for the resolution of a class of singularities in algebraic geometry. At the same time, the book has been completely re-typeset, errors have been eliminated, proofs have been streamlined, the notation has been made consistent and uniform, an index has been added, and a guide to recent literature has been added. The book brings together ideas from algebraic geometry, differential geometry, representation theory and number theory, and will continue to prove of value for researchers and graduate students in these areas.
Reviews / Votes
'The book under review is a new edition of the authors' celebrated research monograph ... which must be seen as one of the milestones in contemporary algebraic and complex-analytic geometry ... No doubt, this classic will maintain its outstanding role in algebraic geometry, Hermitian differential geometry, group representation theory, and arithmetic geometry also in the future, especially for active researchers and graduate students in these related areas of contemporary pure mathematics. In this regard, the present new edition of it is certainly more than welcome.' Zentralblatt MATHMore details
Series
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
25 Line drawings, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
357 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-73955-9 (9780521739559)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Avner Ash | David Mumford | Michael Rapoport
Smooth Compactifications of Locally Symmetric Varieties
E-Book
02/2010
2nd Edition
Cambridge University Press
€55.99
Available for download
Persons
Avner Ash is Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Boston College, Massachusetts. David Mumford is Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics at Brown University, Rhode Island. Michael Rapoport is Professor in the Mathematical Institute of the University of Bonn, Germany. Yung-sheng Tai is Associate Professor of Mathematics at Haverford College, Pennsylvania.
Content
Preface to the second edition; Preface to the first edition; 1. Basics on torus embeddings: examples; 2. Polyhedral reduction theory in self-adjoint cones; 3. Compactifications of locally symmetric varieties; 4. Further developments; Supplementary bibliography; Index.