Chow Rings, Decomposition of the Diagonal, and the Topology of Families

AM-187

Claire Voisin

$150

Paperback

Not in-store but you can order this
How long will it take?

Availability Information

We source books from suppliers in Australia and overseas. For books we don't currently have in stock, the time it takes to get them from our suppliers can vary widely - from a few days to a few months - so we check each book with each supplier to determine the expected time it will take to be supplied to us.

We then advise you accordingly. If the time taken to get any book is too long for you, you can let us know and we will cancel or adjust your order, and refund as required.

To find out the anticipated arrival time for specific items prior to ordering, please contact us by phone or email:

Phone +61 2 9264 3111, or 1800 4 BOOKS (1800 4 26657) if outside Sydney:
option 1 Abbey's Bookshop (Crime, History, Science, Kids & more) • info@abbeys.com.au
option 2 Language Book Centre (ESL & Foreign Languages) • language@abbeys.com.au
option 3 Galaxy Bookshop (Sci-fi, Fantasy, Romance, Graphic Novels) • sf@galaxybooks.com.au

QTY:

English

Princeton University Press
06 May 2014

Set theory; Groups & group theory; Algebraic topology

Series: Annals of Mathematics Studies

In this book, Claire Voisin provides an introduction to algebraic cycles on complex algebraic varieties, to the major conjectures relating them to cohomology, and even more precisely to Hodge structures on cohomology. The volume is intended for both students and researchers, and not only presents a survey of the geometric methods developed in the last thirty years to understand the famous Bloch-Beilinson conjectures, but also examines recent work by Voisin. The book focuses on two central objects: the diagonal of a variety--and the partial Bloch-Srinivas type decompositions it may have depending on the size of Chow groups--as well as its small diagonal, which is the right object to consider in order to understand the ring structure on Chow groups and cohomology. An exploration of a sampling of recent works by Voisin looks at the relation, conjectured in general by Bloch and Beilinson, between the coniveau of general complete intersections and their Chow groups and a very particular property satisfied by the Chow ring of K3 surfaces and conjecturally by hyper-Kahler manifolds.

In particular, the book delves into arguments originating in Nori's work that have been further developed by others.

By: Claire Voisin
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 211
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 28g
ISBN: 9780691160511
ISBN 10: 0691160511
Series: Annals of Mathematics Studies
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 06 May 2014
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface vii 1Introduction 1 1.1 Decomposition of the diagonal and spread 3 1.2 The generalized Bloch conjecture 7 1.3 Decomposition of the small diagonal and application to the topology of families 9 1.4 Integral coefficients and birational invariants 11 1.5 Organization of the text 13 2Review of Hodge theory and algebraic cycles 15 2.1 Chow groups 15 2.2 Hodge structures 24 3Decomposition of the diagonal 36 3.1 A general principle 36 3.2 Varieties with small Chow groups 44 4Chow groups of large coniveau complete intersections 55 4.1 Hodge coniveau of complete intersections 55 4.2 Coniveau 2 complete intersections 64 4.3 Equivalence of generalized Bloch and Hodge conjectures for general complete intersections 67 4.4 Further applications to the Bloch conjecture on 0-cycles on surfaces 86 5On the Chow ring of K3 surfaces and hyper-Kahler manifolds 88 5.1 Tautological ring of a K3 surface 88 5.2 A decomposition of the small diagonal 96 5.3 Deligne's decomposition theorem for families of K3 surfaces 106 6Integral coefficients 123 6.1 Integral Hodge classes and birational invariants 123 6.2 Rationally connected varieties and the rationality problem 127 6.3 Integral decomposition of the diagonal and the structure of the Abel-Jacobi map 139 Bibliography 155 Index 163

Claire Voisin has been a senior researcher at France's National Center for Scientific Research since 1986.

Reviews for Chow Rings, Decomposition of the Diagonal, and the Topology of Families (AM-187)

This dense, fascinating book by Voisin is a report of some of the exciting discoveries she has made in the quest of the secrets of algebraic cycles. --Alberto Collino, Zentralblatt MATH