Topological methods in algebraic geometry
Topological methods in algebraic geometry
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10.1007/978-3-662-30697-0
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1966
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通讯作者:
F. Hirzebruch
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作者:
F. Hirzebruch
It was mainly concerned with proving a remarkable generalization of the Riemann-Roch theorem and giving an exposition of the necessary parts of the theories of Kahler manifolds, sheaves, vector bundles and cobordism. Much of these theories was then quite new, and Hirzebruch's book is still one of the very few accounts. In his review (Bull. American Math. Soc. 1958), Chern ranked it with Lefschetz's L'Analysis situs et la ge'om&trie alge'brique (1924) and Hodge's The theory and applications of harmonic integrals (1941) as a landmark in the development of the topological and transcendental theory of algebraic varieties.This edition is a translation of the original text into English, with further references, two appendices and some bibliographical notes. The first appendix is a substantial addition, and has been added to take account of some of the developments that have followed Hirzenbruch's discoveries of the index theorem for differentiable manifolds and the Riemann-Roch theorem for vector bundles on algebraic manifolds, these include: the Riemann-Roch theorem for a mapping of projective varieties and its analogues for differentiable manifolds; the index theorems and fixed point formulas in the theory of differential operators. It gives excellent summaries of these results, mainly from a geometric point of view, and of the main applications: the extension of Hodge's index theorem and Hirzebruch's Riemann-Roch theorem to compact complex manifolds; integrality and non-immersion theorems; the computation of the dimensions of certain spaces of automorphic forms. The second appendix is a formerly unpublished paper of A. Borel's, referred to in the first edition, on a spectral sequence fundamental for the 5-cohomology of complex bundles. The paper gives two applications: the multiplicative property of the xy-genus of a complex manifold (needed for the original proof of the Riemann-Roch theorem for vector bundles); a formula for the 5-cohomology of the Calabi-Eckmann manifolds (products of odd dimensional spheres with certain complex structures).