Smooth compactifications of locally symmetric varieties

The new edition of this celebrated and long-unavailable book preserves the original book's content and structure and its unrivalled presentation of a universal method for the resolution of a class of singularities in algebraic geometry. At the same time, the book has been completely re-typeset, errors have been eliminated, proofs have been streamlined, the notation has been made consistent and uniform, an index has been added, and a guide to recent literature hasbeen added. The book brings together ideas from algebraic geometry, differential geometry, representation theory and number theory, and will continue to prove of value for researchers and graduate students in these areas. INDICE: Preface to the second edition; Preface to the first edition; 1. Basics on torus embeddings: examples; 2. Polyhedral reduction theory in self-adjoint cones; 3. Compactifications of locally symmetric varieties; 4. Further developments; Supplementary bibliography; Index.

• ISBN: 978-0-521-73955-9
• Editorial: Cambridge University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 240
• Fecha Publicación: 14/01/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés