Algebraic Geometry : : A Volume in Memory of Paolo Francia / / ed. by Mauro C. Beltrametti, Fabrizio Catanese, Ciro Ciliberto, Antonio Lanteri, Claudio Pedrini.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Mathematics - 2000 - 2014
• MitwirkendeR: Barbieri-Viale, Luca,; Beauville, Arnaud,; Borrelli, Giuseppe,; Bădescu, Lucian,; Catanese, Fabrizio,; Ciliberto, Ciro,; Conte, Alberto,; Corti, Alessio,; Ein, Lawrence,; Fernex, Tommaso,; Guletskiĭ, Vladimir,; Kawamata, Yujiro,; Konno, Kazuhiro,; Langer, Adrian,; Lanteri, Antonio,; Mallavibarrena, Raquel,; Marchisio, Marina,; Mendes Lopes, Margarida,; Murre, Jacob,; Pardini, Rita,; Pedrini, Claudio,; Reid, Miles,; Russo, Francesco,; Schneider, Michael,; Schreyer, Frank-Olaf,; Shokurov, Vyacheslav V.,; Sommese, Andrew J.,; Verschelde, Jean,; Wampler, Charles,
• HerausgeberIn: Beltrametti, Mauro C.,; Catanese, Fabrizio,; Ciliberto, Ciro,; Lanteri, Antonio,; Pedrini, Claudio,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2008]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Edition: Reprint 2012
• Language: English
• Series: De Gruyter Proceedings in Mathematics
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (355 p.) :; Ill.

The volume consists of invited refereed research papers. The contributions cover a wide spectrum in algebraic geometry, from motives theory to numerical algebraic geometry and are mainly focused on higher dimensional varieties and Minimal Model Program and surfaces of general type. A part of the articles grew out a Conference in memory of Paolo Francia (1951-2000) held in Genova in September 2001 with about 70 participants.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Formal functions, connectivity and homogeneous -- spaces -- On algebraic 1-motives related to Hodge -- cycles -- The Szpiro inequality for higher genus -- fibrations -- On regular surfaces of general type with pg = 2 and -- non-birational bicanonical map -- Canonical projections of irregular algebraic -- surfaces -- On surfaces with pg = 2, q = 1 and non-birational -- bicanonical map -- On unirationality of double covers of fixed degree -- and large dimension; a method of Ciliberto -- Weighted Grassmannians -- Resolution of indeterminacy of pairs -- The Chow motive of the Godeaux surface -- Francia’s flip and derived categories -- On the quadric hull of a canonical surface -- A note on Bogomolov’s instability and Higgs -- sheaves -- Jets of antimulticanonical bundles on Del Pezzo -- surfaces of degree ≤ 2 -- A survey on the bicanonical map of surfaces with pg -- = 0 and K2 ≥ 2 -- The antibirational involutions of the plane and the -- classification of real del Pezzo surfaces -- Letters of a bi-rationalist IV. Geometry of log -- flips -- A method for tracking singular paths with -- application to the numerical irreducible decomposition -- Backmatter