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Facets of Algebraic Geometry 2 Volume Paperback Set

Facets of Algebraic Geometry 2 Volume Paperback Set

Facets of Algebraic Geometry 2 Volume Paperback Set

A Collection in Honor of William Fulton's 80th Birthday
Paolo Aluffi , Florida State University
David Anderson , Ohio State University
Milena Hering , University of Edinburgh
Mircea Mustaţă , University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Sam Payne , University of Texas, Austin
April 2022
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    Written to honor the 80th birthday of William Fulton, the articles collected in these volumes present substantial contributions to algebraic geometry and related fields, with an emphasis on combinatorial algebraic geometry and intersection theory. Featured topics include: commutative algebra, representation theory, tropical geometry, moduli spaces, Schubert calculus, quantum cohomology. The range of these contributions is a testament to the breadth and depth of Fulton's mathematical influence. The authors are all internationally recognized experts, and include well-established researchers as well as rising stars of a new generation of mathematicians. The text aims to stimulate progress and provide inspiration to graduate students and researchers in the field.

    • Covers a wide range of topics in modern algebraic geometry reflecting William Fulton's broad range of interests
    • Written by a combination of well-established researchers and rising stars of a new generation of mathematicians
    • Suitable for graduate students and researchers in algebraic geometry and related fields

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    April 2022
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    840 pages
    230 × 151 × 44 mm
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    Table of Contents

    • 1. Positivity of Segre–MacPherson classes Paolo Aluffi, Leonardo C. Mihalcea, Jörg Schürmann and Changjian Su
    • 2. Brill–Noether special cubic fourfolds of discriminant 14 Asher Auel
    • 3. Automorphism groups of almost homogeneous varieties Michel Brion
    • 4. Topology of moduli spaces of tropical curves with marked points Melody Chan, Søren Galatius and Sam Payne
    • 5. Mirror symmetry and smoothing Gorenstein toric affine 3-folds Alessio Corti, Matej Filip and Andrea Petracci
    • 6. Vertex algebras of CohFT-type Chiara Damiolini, Angela Gibney and Nicola Tarasca
    • 7. The cone theorem and the vanishing of Chow cohomology Dan Edidin and Ryan Richey
    • 8. Cayley–Bacharach theorems with excess vanishing Lawrence Ein and Robert Lazarsfeld
    • 9. Effective divisors on Hurwitz spaces Gavril Farkas
    • 10. Chow quotients of Grassmannians by diagonal subtori Noah Giansiracusa and Xian Wu
    • 11. Quantum Kirwan for quantum K-theory E. González and C. Woodward
    • 12. Toric varieties and a generalization of the Springer resolution William Graham
    • 13. Toric surfaces, linear and quantum codes – secret sharing and decoding Johan P. Hansen
    • 14. Stability of tangent bundles on smooth toric Picard-rank-2 varieties and surfaces Milena Hering, Benjamin Nill and Hendrik Süß
    • 15. Tropical cohomology with integral coefficients for analytic spaces Philipp Jell
    • 16. Schubert polynomials, pipe dreams, equivariant classes, and a co-transition formula Allen Knutson
    • 17. Positivity certificates via integral representations Khazhgali Kozhasov, Mateusz MichaÅ‚ek and Bernd Sturmfels
    • 18. On the coproduct in affine Schubert calculus Thomas Lam, Seung Jin Lee and Mark Shimozono
    • 19. Bost–Connes systems and F1-structures in Grothendieck rings, spectra, and Nori motives Joshua F. Lieber, Yuri I. Manin, and Matilde Marcolli
    • 20. Nef cycles on some hyperkähler fourfolds John Christian Ottem
    • 21. Higher order polar and reciprocal polar loci Ragni Piene
    • 22. Characteristic classes of symmetric and skew-symmetric degeneracy loci Sutipoj Promtapan and Richárd Rimányi
    • 23. Equivariant cohomology, Schubert calculus, and edge labeled tableaux Colleen Robichaux, Harshit Yadav and Alexander Yong
    • 24. Galois groups of composed Schubert problems Frank Sottile, Robert Williams and Li Ying
    • 25. A K-theoretic Fulton class Richard P. Thomas.
      Contributors
    • Paolo Aluffi, Leonardo C. Mihalcea, Jörg Schürmann, Changjian Su, Asher Auel, Michel Brion, Melody Chan, Søren Galatius, Sam Payne, Alessio Corti, Matej Filip, Andrea Petracci, Chiara Damiolini, Angela Gibney, Nicola Tarasca, Dan Edidin, Ryan Richey, Lawrence Ein, Robert Lazarsfeld, Gavril Farkas, Noah Giansiracusa, Xian Wu, E. González, C. Woodward, William Graham, Johan P. Hansen, Milena Hering, Benjamin Nill, Hendrik Süß, Philipp Jell, Allen Knutson, Khazhgali Kozhasov, Mateusz MichaÅ‚ek, Bernd Sturmfels, Thomas Lam, Seung Jin Lee, Mark Shimozono, Joshua F. Lieber, Yuri I. Manin, Matilde Marcolli, John Christian Ottem, Ragni Piene, Sutipoj Promtapan, Richárd Rimányi, Colleen Robichaux, Harshit Yadav, Alexander Yong, Frank Sottile, Robert Williams, Li Ying, Richard P. Thomas

    • Editors
    • Paolo Aluffi , Florida State University

      Paolo Aluffi is Professor of Mathematics at Florida State University. He earned a Ph.D. from Brown University with a dissertation on the enumerative geometry of cubic plane curves, under the supervision of William Fulton. His research interests are in algebraic geometry, particularly intersection theory and its application to the theory of singularities and connections with theoretical physics.

    • David Anderson , Ohio State University

      David Anderson is Associate Professor of Mathematics at The Ohio State University. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, under the supervision of William Fulton. His research interests are in combinatorics and algebraic geometry, with a focus on Schubert calculus and its applications.

    • Milena Hering , University of Edinburgh

      Milena Hering is Reader in the School of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh. She earned a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan with a thesis on syzygies of toric varieties, under the supervision of William Fulton. Her research interests are in algebraic geometry, in particular toric varieties, Hilbert schemes, and connections to combinatorics and commutative algebra.

    • Mircea Mustaţă , University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

      Mircea Mustaţă is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Michigan, where he has been a colleague of William Fulton for over 15 years. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley under the supervision of David Eisenbud. His work is in algebraic geometry, with a focus on the study of singularities of algebraic varieties.

    • Sam Payne , University of Texas, Austin

      Sam Payne is Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan, with a thesis on toric vector bundles, under the supervision of William Fulton. His research explores the geometry, topology, and combinatorics of algebraic varieties and their moduli spaces, often through relations to tropical and nonarchimedean analytic geometry.