Lectures on the structure of algebraic groups and geometric applications

Lectures on the structure of algebraic groups and geometric applications
Author: Michel Brion
Publisher: Hindustan Book Agency
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9789380250465

This book originates from a series of 10 lectures given by Professor Michel Brion at the Chennai Mathematical Institute during January 2011. It presents a theorem due to Chevalley on the structure of connected algebraic groups, over algebraically closed fields, as the starting point of various other structure results developed in the recent past.

Representations of Algebraic Groups

Representations of Algebraic Groups
Author: Jens Carsten Jantzen
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 594
Release: 2003
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 082184377X

Gives an introduction to the general theory of representations of algebraic group schemes. This title deals with representation theory of reductive algebraic groups and includes topics such as the description of simple modules, vanishing theorems, Borel-Bott-Weil theorem and Weyl's character formula, and Schubert schemes and lne bundles on them.

Algebraic Groups

Algebraic Groups
Author: J. S. Milne
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 665
Release: 2017-09-21
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1107167485

Comprehensive introduction to the theory of algebraic group schemes over fields, based on modern algebraic geometry, with few prerequisites.

Algebraic Groups: Structure and Actions

Algebraic Groups: Structure and Actions
Author: Mahir Bilen Can
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2017-04-06
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1470426013

This volume contains the proceedings of the 2015 Clifford Lectures on Algebraic Groups: Structures and Actions, held from March 2–5, 2015, at Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana. This volume consists of six articles on algebraic groups, including an enhanced exposition of the classical results of Chevalley and Rosenlicht on the structure of algebraic groups; an enhanced survey of the recently developed theory of pseudo-reductive groups; and an exposition of the recently developed operational -theory for singular varieties. In addition, there are three research articles containing previously unpublished foundational results on birational automorphism groups of algebraic varieties; solution of Hermite-Joubert problem over -closed fields; and cohomological invariants and applications to classifying spaces. The old and new results presented in these articles will hopefully become cornerstones for the future development of the theory of algebraic groups and applications. Graduate students and researchers working in the fields of algebraic geometry, number theory, and representation theory will benefit from this unique and broad compilation of fundamental results on algebraic group theory.

Algebraic Groups

Algebraic Groups
Author: J. S. Milne
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 665
Release: 2017-09-21
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1316739155

Algebraic groups play much the same role for algebraists as Lie groups play for analysts. This book is the first comprehensive introduction to the theory of algebraic group schemes over fields that includes the structure theory of semisimple algebraic groups, and is written in the language of modern algebraic geometry. The first eight chapters study general algebraic group schemes over a field and culminate in a proof of the Barsotti–Chevalley theorem, realizing every algebraic group as an extension of an abelian variety by an affine group. After a review of the Tannakian philosophy, the author provides short accounts of Lie algebras and finite group schemes. The later chapters treat reductive algebraic groups over arbitrary fields, including the Borel–Chevalley structure theory. Solvable algebraic groups are studied in detail. Prerequisites have also been kept to a minimum so that the book is accessible to non-specialists in algebraic geometry.

Lectures on Invariant Theory

Lectures on Invariant Theory
Author: Igor Dolgachev
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2003-08-07
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780521525480

The primary goal of this 2003 book is to give a brief introduction to the main ideas of algebraic and geometric invariant theory. It assumes only a minimal background in algebraic geometry, algebra and representation theory. Topics covered include the symbolic method for computation of invariants on the space of homogeneous forms, the problem of finite-generatedness of the algebra of invariants, the theory of covariants and constructions of categorical and geometric quotients. Throughout, the emphasis is on concrete examples which originate in classical algebraic geometry. Based on lectures given at University of Michigan, Harvard University and Seoul National University, the book is written in an accessible style and contains many examples and exercises. A novel feature of the book is a discussion of possible linearizations of actions and the variation of quotients under the change of linearization. Also includes the construction of toric varieties as torus quotients of affine spaces.

Rational Points on Varieties

Rational Points on Varieties
Author: Bjorn Poonen
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2017-12-13
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1470437732

This book is motivated by the problem of determining the set of rational points on a variety, but its true goal is to equip readers with a broad range of tools essential for current research in algebraic geometry and number theory. The book is unconventional in that it provides concise accounts of many topics instead of a comprehensive account of just one—this is intentionally designed to bring readers up to speed rapidly. Among the topics included are Brauer groups, faithfully flat descent, algebraic groups, torsors, étale and fppf cohomology, the Weil conjectures, and the Brauer-Manin and descent obstructions. A final chapter applies all these to study the arithmetic of surfaces. The down-to-earth explanations and the over 100 exercises make the book suitable for use as a graduate-level textbook, but even experts will appreciate having a single source covering many aspects of geometry over an unrestricted ground field and containing some material that cannot be found elsewhere.

Lectures on Logarithmic Algebraic Geometry

Lectures on Logarithmic Algebraic Geometry
Author: Arthur Ogus
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 559
Release: 2018-11-08
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1107187737

A self-contained introduction to logarithmic geometry, a key tool for analyzing compactification and degeneration in algebraic geometry.

Actions and Invariants of Algebraic Groups

Actions and Invariants of Algebraic Groups
Author: Walter Ricardo Ferrer Santos
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 709
Release: 2017-09-19
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1351644777

Actions and Invariants of Algebraic Groups, Second Edition presents a self-contained introduction to geometric invariant theory starting from the basic theory of affine algebraic groups and proceeding towards more sophisticated dimensions." Building on the first edition, this book provides an introduction to the theory by equipping the reader with the tools needed to read advanced research in the field. Beginning with commutative algebra, algebraic geometry and the theory of Lie algebras, the book develops the necessary background of affine algebraic groups over an algebraically closed field, and then moves toward the algebraic and geometric aspects of modern invariant theory and quotients.