Birational Geometry of Foliations
Published on 6. October 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
XIV, 130 pages
978-3-319-36565-7 (ISBN)
Description
The text presents the birational classification of holomorphic foliations of surfaces. It discusses at length the theory developed by L.G. Mendes, M. McQuillan and the author to study foliations of surfaces in the spirit of the classification of complex algebraic surfaces.
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Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2015
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
35 s/w Abbildungen
XIV, 130 p. 35 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 23.5 cm
Width: 15.5 cm
Weight
2292 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-319-36565-7 (9783319365657)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-14310-1
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Marco Brunella
Birational Geometry of Foliations
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04/2015
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Marco Brunella was a CNRS researcher working at Institut de Mathematiques de Bourgogne in Dijon, France. He has produced extraordinary mathematical work, focusing on the study of Holomorphic Foliations and Complex Geometry. Dr. Brunella passed away in January 2012, but his profound, creative mathematics continues to have an impact on geometers and analysts.
Content
Introduction: From Surfaces to Foliations.- Local Theory.- Foliations and Line Bundles.- Index Theorems.- Some Special Foliations.- Minimal Models.- Global 1-forms and Vector Fields.- The Rationality Criterion.- Numerical Kodaira Dimension.- Kodaira Dimension.- References.