Lectures on Formal and Rigid Geometry

Lectures on Formal and Rigid Geometry
Author: Siegfried Bosch
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2014-08-22
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3319044176

The aim of this work is to offer a concise and self-contained 'lecture-style' introduction to the theory of classical rigid geometry established by John Tate, together with the formal algebraic geometry approach launched by Michel Raynaud. These Lectures are now viewed commonly as an ideal means of learning advanced rigid geometry, regardless of the reader's level of background. Despite its parsimonious style, the presentation illustrates a number of key facts even more extensively than any other previous work. This Lecture Notes Volume is a revised and slightly expanded version of a preprint that appeared in 2005 at the University of Münster's Collaborative Research Center "Geometrical Structures in Mathematics".

Berkeley Lectures on P-adic Geometry

Berkeley Lectures on P-adic Geometry
Author: Peter Scholze
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2020-05-26
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0691202095

Berkeley Lectures on p-adic Geometry presents an important breakthrough in arithmetic geometry. In 2014, leading mathematician Peter Scholze delivered a series of lectures at the University of California, Berkeley, on new ideas in the theory of p-adic geometry. Building on his discovery of perfectoid spaces, Scholze introduced the concept of “diamonds,” which are to perfectoid spaces what algebraic spaces are to schemes. The introduction of diamonds, along with the development of a mixed-characteristic shtuka, set the stage for a critical advance in the discipline. In this book, Peter Scholze and Jared Weinstein show that the moduli space of mixed-characteristic shtukas is a diamond, raising the possibility of using the cohomology of such spaces to attack the Langlands conjectures for a reductive group over a p-adic field. This book follows the informal style of the original Berkeley lectures, with one chapter per lecture. It explores p-adic and perfectoid spaces before laying out the newer theory of shtukas and their moduli spaces. Points of contact with other threads of the subject, including p-divisible groups, p-adic Hodge theory, and Rapoport-Zink spaces, are thoroughly explained. Berkeley Lectures on p-adic Geometry will be a useful resource for students and scholars working in arithmetic geometry and number theory.

Field Arithmetic

Field Arithmetic
Author: Michael D. Fried
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 812
Release: 2005
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9783540228110

Field Arithmetic explores Diophantine fields through their absolute Galois groups. This largely self-contained treatment starts with techniques from algebraic geometry, number theory, and profinite groups. Graduate students can effectively learn generalizations of finite field ideas. We use Haar measure on the absolute Galois group to replace counting arguments. New Chebotarev density variants interpret diophantine properties. Here we have the only complete treatment of Galois stratifications, used by Denef and Loeser, et al, to study Chow motives of Diophantine statements. Progress from the first edition starts by characterizing the finite-field like P(seudo)A(lgebraically)C(losed) fields. We once believed PAC fields were rare. Now we know they include valuable Galois extensions of the rationals that present its absolute Galois group through known groups. PAC fields have projective absolute Galois group. Those that are Hilbertian are characterized by this group being pro-free. These last decade results are tools for studying fields by their relation to those with projective absolute group. There are still mysterious problems to guide a new generation: Is the solvable closure of the rationals PAC; and do projective Hilbertian fields have pro-free absolute Galois group (includes Shafarevich's conjecture)?

Orderings, Valuations and Quadratic Forms

Orderings, Valuations and Quadratic Forms
Author: Tsit-Yuen Lam
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 158
Release: 1983
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821807021

Presents an introduction to ordered fields and reduced quadratic forms using valuation-theoretic techniques. This book describes the techniques of residue forms and the relevant Springer theory.

Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science VI

Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science VI
Author: J.J. Cohen
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 871
Release: 2011-10-10
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0080960308

Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science VI presents the results of recent research into the foundations of science. The volume contains invited papers presented at the Congress, covering the areas of Logic, Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Biological Sciences and the Humanities.

Encyclopaedia of Mathematics

Encyclopaedia of Mathematics
Author: Michiel Hazewinkel
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 595
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9401512884

This is the first Supplementary volume to Kluwer's highly acclaimed Encyclopaedia of Mathematics. This additional volume contains nearly 600 new entries written by experts and covers developments and topics not included in the already published 10-volume set. These entries have been arranged alphabetically throughout. A detailed index is included in the book. This Supplementary volume enhances the existing 10-volume set. Together, these eleven volumes represent the most authoritative, comprehensive up-to-date Encyclopaedia of Mathematics available.