Robin Hartshorne

Broschiertes Buch

Deformation Theory

Beschreibung

In the fall semester of 1979 I gave a course on deformation theory at Berkeley. My goal was to understand completely Grothendieck's local study of the Hilbert scheme using the cohomology of the normal bundle to characterize the Zariski tangent space and the obstructions to deformations. At the same timeIstartedwritinglecturenotesforthecourse.However,thewritingproject soon foundered as the subject became more intricate, and the result was no more than ?ve of a projected thirteen sections, corresponding roughly to s- tions 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 of the present book. These handwritten notes circulated quietly for many years until David Eisenbud urged me to complete them and at the same time (without consu- ing me) mentioned to an editor at Springer, "You know Robin has these notes on deformation theory, which could easily become a book." When asked by Springer if I would write such a book, I immediately refused, since I was then planning another book on space curves. But on second thought, Idecided this was,afterall,aworthyproject,andthatbywritingImight?nallyunderstand the subject myself. So during 2004 I expanded the old notes into a rough draft, which I used to teach a course during the spring semester of 2005. Those notes, rewritten once more, with the addition of exercises, form the book you are now reading. Mygoalinthisbookistointroducethemainideasofdeformationtheoryin algebraicgeometryandtoillustratetheiruseinanumberoftypicalsituations.

Autor

The basic problem of deformation theory in algebraic geometry involves watching a small deformation of one member of a family of objects, such as varieties, or subschemes in a fixed space, or vector bundles on a fixed scheme. In this book, Robin Hartshorne studies first what happens over small infinitesimal deformations, and then gradually builds up to more global situations, using methods pioneered by Kodaira and Spencer in the complex analytic case, and adapted and expanded in algebraic geometry by Grothendieck.

Produktdetails

• Graduate Texts in Mathematics 257
• Verlag: Springer / Springer New York / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-4614-2520-5
• 2010
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 378g
• ISBN-13: 9781461425205
• ISBN-10: 1461425204
• Artikelnr.: 34791402

Rezensionen

From the reviews:

"Deformation theory is a ubiquitous subject: From the Taylor expansion in Calculus to the deformation of Galois representations. ... Since deformation theory could be considered a central topic in algebraic geometry ... textbook where some of the main results and methods are collected in one place is certainly welcome. ... inclusion of exercises and plenty of examples, make this book suitable for a course on this topic or for self-study, with the only prerequisite the now standard textbook on Algebraic Geometry by the same author."

(Felipe Zaldivar, The Mathematical Association of America, March, 2010)