Algebraic Surfaces by Oscar Zariski.

The aim of the present monograph is to give a systematic exposition of the theory of algebraic surfaces emphasizing the interrelations between the various aspects of the theory: algebro-geometric, topological and transcendental. To achieve this aim, and still remain inside the limits of the allotted...

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Main Author:	Zariski, Oscar (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1995.
Edition:	2nd ed. 1995.
Series:	Classics in Mathematics, Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:	Algebraic geometry. Electronic resources (E-books)
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Table of Contents:

I. Theory and Reduction of Singularities
1. Algebraic varieties and birational transformations
2. Singularities of plane algebraic curves
3. Singularities of space algebraic curves
4. Topological classification of singularities
5. Singularities of algebraic surfaces
6. The reduction of singularities of an algebraic surface
II. Linear Systems of Curves
1. Definitions and general properties
2. On the conditions imposed by infinitely near base points
3. Complete linear systems
4. Addition and subtraction of linear systems
5. The virtual characters of an arbitrary linear system
6. Exceptional curves
7. Invariance of the virtual characters
8. Virtual characteristic series. Virtual curves
Appendix to Chapter II by Joseph Lipman
III. Adjoint Systems and the Theory of Invariants
1. Complete linear systems of plane curves
2. Complete linear systems of surfaces in S3
3. Subadjoint surfaces
4. Subadjoint systems of a given linear system
5. The distributive property of subadjunction
6. Adjoint systems
7. The residue theorem in its projective form
8. The canonical system
9. The pluricanonical systems
Appendix to Chapter III by David Mumford
IV. The Arithmetic Genus and the Generalized Theorem of Riemann-Roch
1. The arithmetic genus Pa
2. The theorem of Riemann-Roch on algebraic surfaces
3. The deficiency of the characteristic series of a complete linear system
4. The elimination of exceptional curves and the characterization of ruled surfaces
Appendix to Chapter IV by David Mumford
V. Continuous Non-linear Systems
1. Definitions and general properties
2. Complete continuous systems and algebraic equivalence
3. The completeness of the characteristic series of a complete continuous system
4. The variety of Picard
5. Equivalence criteria
6. The theory of the base and the number ? of Picard
7. The division group and the invariant ? of Severi
8. On the moduli of algebraic surfaces
Appendix to Chapter V by David Mumford
VI. Topological Properties of Algebraic Surfaces
1. Terminology and notations
2. An algebraic surface as a manifold M4
3. Algebraic cycles on F and their intersections
4. The representation of F upon a multiple plane
5. The deformation of a variable plane section of F
6. The vanishing cycles ?i, and the invariant cycles
7. The fundamental homologies for the 1-cycles on F
8. The reduction of F to a cell
9. The three-dimensional cycles
10. The two-dimensional cycles
11. The group of torsion
12. Homologies between algebraic cycles and algebraic equivalence. The invariant ?0
13. The topological theory of algebraic correspondences
Appendix to Chapter VI by David Mumford
VII. Simple and Double Integrals on an Algebraic Surface
1. Classification of integrals
2. Simple integrals of the second kind
3. On the number of independent simple integrals of the first and of the second kind attached to a surface of irregularity q. The fundamental theorem
4. The normal functions of Poincaré
5. The existence theorem of Lefschetz-Poincaré
6. Reducible integrals. Theorem of Poincaré
7. Miscellaneous applications of the existence theorem
8. Double integrals of the first kind. Theorem of Hodge
9. Residues of double integrals and the reduction of the double integrals of the second kind
10. Normal double integrals and the determination of the number of independent double integrals of the second kind
Appendix to Chapter VII by David Mumford
ChapterVIII. Branch Curves of Multiple Planes and Continuous Systems of Plane Algebraic Curves
1. The problem of existence of algebraic functions of two variables
2. Properties of the fundamental group G
3. The irregularity of cyclic multiple planes
4. Complete continuous systems of plane curves with d nodes
5. Continuous systems of plane algebraic curves with nodes and cusps
Appendix 1 to Chapter VIII by Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar
Appendix 2 to Chapter VIII by David Mumford
Appendix A. Series of Equivalence
1. Equivalence between sets of points
2. Series of equivalence
3. Invariant series of equivalence
4. Topological and transcendental properties of series of equivalence
5. (Added in 2nd edition, by D. Mumford)
Appendix B. Correspondences between Algebraic Varieties
1. The fixed point formula of Lefschetz
2. The transcendental equations and the rank of a correspondence
3. The case of two coincident varieties. Correspondences with valence
4. The principle of correspondence of Zeuthen-Severi
Supplementary Bibliography for Second Edition.

Algebraic Surfaces by Oscar Zariski.

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