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

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• 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 art...

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