Lectures on Algebraic Cycles
Lectures on Algebraic Cycles
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GBPSpencer Bloch's 1979 Duke lectures, a milestone in modern mathematics, have been out of print almost since their first publication in 1980, yet they have remained influential and are still the best place to learn the guiding philosophy of algebraic cycles and motives. This edition, now professionally typeset, has a new preface by the author giving his perspective on developments in the field over the past 30 years. The theory of algebraic cycles encompasses such central problems in mathematics as the Hodge conjecture and the Bloch–Kato conjecture on special values of zeta functions. The book begins with Mumford's example showing that the Chow group of zero-cycles on an algebraic variety can be infinite-dimensional, and explains how Hodge theory and algebraic K-theory give new insights into this and other phenomena.
- Classic treatment of an important area of mathematics by one of its founders
- This second edition includes a new, extended preface by the author and an index
- Ideal for graduate courses and lecture series
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August 2010Adobe eBook Reader
9780511795756
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Table of Contents
- Preface to the second edition
- Introduction
- 1. 0-cycles on surfaces
- Lecture 1. Appendix. On an argument of Mumford in the theory of algebraic cycles
- 2. Curves on threefolds and intermediate Jacobians
- 3. Curves on threefolds and intermediate Jacobians - the relative case
- 4. K-theoretic and cohomological methods
- 5. Torsion in the Chow group
- 6. Complements on H2(K2)
- 7. Diophantine questions
- 8. Relative cycles and zeta functions
- 9. Relative cycles and zeta functions (continued)
- References
- Index.
