Smooth Compactifications of Locally Symmetric Varieties (Cambridge Mathematical Library)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: 2, 1/1/1900
EAN 9780521739559, ISBN10: 0521739551
Paperback, 240 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm
Language: English
The new edition of this celebrated and long-unavailable book preserves the original book's content and structure and its unrivalled presentation of a universal method for the resolution of a class of singularities in algebraic geometry. At the same time, the book has been completely re-typeset, errors have been eliminated, proofs have been streamlined, the notation has been made consistent and uniform, an index has been added, and a guide to recent literature has been added. The book brings together ideas from algebraic geometry, differential geometry, representation theory and number theory, and will continue to prove of value for researchers and graduate students in these areas.
Preface to the second edition
Preface to the first edition
1. Basics on torus embeddings
examples
2. Polyhedral reduction theory in self-adjoint cones
3. Compactifications of locally symmetric varieties
4. Further developments
Supplementary bibliography
Index.