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Minimal Model Program
In algebraic geometry, the minimal model program is part of the birational classification of algebraic varieties. Its goal is to construct a birational model of any complex projective variety which is as simple as possible. The subject has its origins in the classical birational geometry of surfaces studied by the Italian school, and is currently an active research area within algebraic geometry. Outline The basic idea of the theory is to simplify the birational classification of varieties by finding, in each birational equivalence class, a variety which is "as simple as possible". The precise meaning of this phrase has evolved with the development of the subject; originally for surfaces, it meant finding a smooth variety X for which any birational morphism f\colon X \to X' with a smooth surface X' is an isomorphism. In the modern formulation, the goal of the theory is as follows. Suppose we are given a projective variety X, which for simplicity is assumed non-singular. There are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Algebraic Geometry
Algebraic geometry is a branch of mathematics, classically studying zeros of multivariate polynomials. Modern algebraic geometry is based on the use of abstract algebraic techniques, mainly from commutative algebra, for solving geometrical problems about these sets of zeros. The fundamental objects of study in algebraic geometry are algebraic varieties, which are geometric manifestations of solutions of systems of polynomial equations. Examples of the most studied classes of algebraic varieties are: plane algebraic curves, which include lines, circles, parabolas, ellipses, hyperbolas, cubic curves like elliptic curves, and quartic curves like lemniscates and Cassini ovals. A point of the plane belongs to an algebraic curve if its coordinates satisfy a given polynomial equation. Basic questions involve the study of the points of special interest like the singular points, the inflection points and the points at infinity. More advanced questions involve the topology of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nef Line Bundle
In algebraic geometry, a line bundle on a projective variety is nef if it has nonnegative degree on every curve in the variety. The classes of nef line bundles are described by a convex cone, and the possible contractions of the variety correspond to certain faces of the nef cone. In view of the correspondence between line bundles and divisors (built from codimension-1 subvarieties), there is an equivalent notion of a nef divisor. Definition More generally, a line bundle ''L'' on a proper scheme ''X'' over a field ''k'' is said to be nef if it has nonnegative degree on every (closed irreducible) curve in ''X''. (The degree of a line bundle ''L'' on a proper curve ''C'' over ''k'' is the degree of the divisor (''s'') of any nonzero rational section ''s'' of ''L''.) A line bundle may also be called an invertible sheaf. The term "nef" was introduced by Miles Reid as a replacement for the older terms "arithmetically effective" and "numerically effective", as well as for the phrase "num ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by Henry VIII of England, King Henry VIII in 1534, it is the oldest university press A university press is an academic publishing house specializing in monographs and scholarly journals. Most are nonprofit organizations and an integral component of a large research university. They publish work that has been reviewed by schola ... in the world. It is also the King's Printer. Cambridge University Press is a department of the University of Cambridge and is both an academic and educational publisher. It became part of Cambridge University Press & Assessment, following a merger with Cambridge Assessment in 2021. With a global sales presence, publishing hubs, and offices in more than 40 Country, countries, it publishes over 50,000 titles by authors from over 100 countries. Its publishing includes more than 380 academic journals, monographs, reference works, school and uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulletin Of The American Mathematical Society
The ''Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society'' is a quarterly mathematical journal published by the American Mathematical Society. Scope It publishes surveys on contemporary research topics, written at a level accessible to non-experts. It also publishes, by invitation only, book reviews and short ''Mathematical Perspectives'' articles. History It began as the ''Bulletin of the New York Mathematical Society'' and underwent a name change when the society became national. The Bulletin's function has changed over the years; its original function was to serve as a research journal for its members. Indexing The Bulletin is indexed in Mathematical Reviews, Science Citation Index, ISI Alerting Services, CompuMath Citation Index, and Current Contents/Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences. See also *'' Journal of the American Mathematical Society'' *''Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society'' *''Notices of the American Mathematical Society'' *'' Proceedings of the American M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Journal Of The American Mathematical Society
The ''Journal of the American Mathematical Society'' (''JAMS''), is a quarterly peer-reviewed mathematical journal published by the American Mathematical Society. It was established in January 1988. Abstracting and indexing This journal is abstracted and indexed in: 2011. American Mathematical Society. * * * * ISI Ale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minimal Rational Surface
In algebraic geometry, a branch of mathematics, a rational surface is a surface birational geometry, birationally equivalent to the projective plane, or in other words a rational variety of dimension two. Rational surfaces are the simplest of the 10 or so classes of surface in the Enriques–Kodaira classification of complex surfaces, and were the first surfaces to be investigated. Structure Every non-singular rational surface can be obtained by repeatedly blowing up a minimal rational surface. The minimal rational surfaces are the projective plane and the Hirzebruch surfaces Σ''r'' for ''r'' = 0 or ''r'' ≥ 2. Invariants: The plurigenera are all 0 and the fundamental group is trivial. Homological mirror symmetry#Hodge diamond, Hodge diamond: where ''n'' is 0 for the projective plane, and 1 for Hirzebruch surfaces and greater than 1 for other rational surfaces. The Picard group is the odd unimodular lattice I1,''n'', except for the Hirzebruch surfaces Σ2''m'' when it is the e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abundance Conjecture
In algebraic geometry, the abundance conjecture is a conjecture in birational geometry, more precisely in the minimal model program, stating that for every projective variety X with Kawamata log terminal singularities over a field k if the canonical bundle K_X is nef, then K_X is semi-ample. Important cases of the abundance conjecture have been proven by Caucher Birkar Caucher Birkar ( ku, کۆچەر بیرکار, lit=migrant mathematician, translit=Koçer Bîrkar; born Fereydoun Derakhshani ( fa, فریدون درخشانی); July 1978) is an Iranian peoples, Iranian Kurds, Kurdish mathematician and a profes .... References * * Algebraic geometry Birational geometry Unsolved problems in geometry {{algebraic-geometry-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James McKernan
James McKernan (born 1964) is a mathematician, and a professor of mathematics at the University of California, San Diego. He was a professor at MIT from 2007 until 2013. Education McKernan was educated at the Campion School, Hornchurch, and Trinity College, Cambridge, before going on to earn his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1991. His dissertation, ''On the Hyperplane Sections of a Variety in Projective Space'', was supervised by Joe Harris. Recognition McKernan was the joint winner of the Cole Prize in 2009, and joint recipient of the Clay Research Award in 2007. Both honors were received jointly with his colleague Christopher Hacon. He gave an invited talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010, on the topic of "Algebraic Geometry". He was the joint winner (with Christopher Hacon) of the 2018 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics. He was elected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Hacon
Christopher Derek Hacon (born 14 February 1970) is a mathematician with British, Italian and US nationalities. He is currently distinguished professor of mathematics at the University of Utah where he holds a Presidential Endowed Chair. His research interests include algebraic geometry. Hacon was born in Manchester, but grew up in Italy where he studied at the Scuola Normale Superiore and received a degree in mathematics at the University of Pisa in 1992. He received his doctorate from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1998, under supervision of Robert Lazarsfeld. Awards and honors In 2007, he was awarded a Clay Research Award for his work, joint with James McKernan, on "the birational geometry of algebraic varieties in dimension greater than three, in particular, for ninductive proof of the existence of flips." In 2009, he was awarded the Cole Prize for outstanding contribution to algebra, along with McKernan. He was an invited speaker at the International ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caucher Birkar
Caucher Birkar ( ku, کۆچەر بیرکار, lit=migrant mathematician, translit=Koçer Bîrkar; born Fereydoun Derakhshani ( fa, فریدون درخشانی); July 1978) is an Iranian Kurdish mathematician and a professor at Tsinghua University and University of Cambridge. Birkar is an important contributor to modern birational geometry. In 2010 he received the Leverhulme Prize in mathematics and statistics for his contributions to algebraic geometry, and in 2016, shared the AMS Moore Prize for the article "Existence of minimal models for varieties of log general type". He was awarded the Fields Medal in 2018, "for his proof of boundedness of Fano varieties and contributions to the minimal model program". In his office at the University, Birkar has two photographs of Alexander Grothendieck, his favorite mathematician, who like Birkar, was a refugee and Fields medalist. Early life and education Birkar is a Kurd, born in 1978 in Marivan County, Kurdistan province, Iran, on a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vyacheslav Shokurov
Vyacheslav Vladimirovich Shokurov (russian: Вячеслав Владимирович Шокуров; born 18 May 1950) is a Russian mathematician best known for his research in algebraic geometry. The proof of the Noether–Enriques–Petri theorem, the cone theorem, the existence of a line on smooth Fano varieties and, finally, the existence of log flips—these are several of Shokurov's contributions to the subject. Early years In 1968 Shokurov became a student at the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University. Already as an undergraduate, Shokurov showed himself to be a mathematician of outstanding talent. In 1970, he proved the scheme analog of the Noether–Enriques–Petri theorem, which later allowed him to solve a Schottky-type problem for the polarized Prym varieties, and to prove the existence of a line on smooth Fano varieties. Upon his graduation Shokurov entered the Ph.D. program in Moscow State University under the supervision of Yuri Man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flip (algebraic Geometry)
In algebraic geometry, flips and flops are codimension-2 surgery operations arising in the minimal model program, given by blowing up along a relative canonical ring. In dimension 3 flips are used to construct minimal models, and any two birationally equivalent minimal models are connected by a sequence of flops. It is conjectured that the same is true in higher dimensions. The minimal model program The minimal model program can be summarised very briefly as follows: given a variety X, we construct a sequence of contractions X = X_1\rightarrow X_2 \rightarrow \cdots \rightarrow X_n , each of which contracts some curves on which the canonical divisor K_ is negative. Eventually, K_ should become nef (at least in the case of nonnegative Kodaira dimension), which is the desired result. The major technical problem is that, at some stage, the variety X_i may become 'too singular', in the sense that the canonical divisor K_ is no longer a Cartier divisor, so the intersection num ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
