The Arithmetic and Geometry of Algebraic Cycles

by B. Brent Gordon (Editor), James D. Lewis (Editor), Stefan Müller-Stach (Editor), Shuji Saito (Editor), Noriko Yui (Editor)

Overview

The NATO Advanced Study Institute on "The Arithmetic and Geometry of Algebraic Cycles" was held at the Banff Centre for Conferences in Banff (Al­ berta, Canada) from June 7 until June 19, 1998. This meeting was organized jointly with Centre de Recherches Mathematiques (CRM), Montreal, as one of the CRM Summer schools which take place annually at the Banff Center. The conference also served as the kick-off activity of the CRM 1998-99 theme year on Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry. There were 109 participants who came from 17 countries: Belgium, Canada, China, France, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, - mania, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. During a period of two weeks, 41 invited lectures and 20 contributed lectures were presented. Four lectures by invited speakers were delivered every day, followed by two sessions of contributed talks. Many informal discussions and working sessions involving small groups were organized by individual participants. In addition, participants' reprints and preprints were displayed throughout in a lounge next to the auditorium, which further enhanced opportunities for communication and interaction.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780792361947
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	02/29/2000
Series:	Nato Science Series C: , #548
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2000
Pages:	615
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.45(h) x 0.24(d)

Table of Contents

Cohomological Methods.- Lectures on algebro-geometric Chern-Weil and Cheeger-Chern-Simons theory for vector bundles.- Deligne cohomology and the geometric (co)bar constructions.- Kunga-Satake varieties and the Hodge conjecture.- Hodge and Weil classes on abelian varieties.- Bloch-Kato conjecture and motivic cohomology with finite coefficients 117.- Chow Groups and Motives.- Indecomposable hogher Chow cycles.- Equivalence relations on algebraic cycles.- Letter to Dick Gross on higher Abel-Jacobi maps.- Finiteness of torsion in the codimension-two Chow group: An Axiomatic Approach.- Algebraic cycle complexes: Basic Properties.- Algebraic cycles on abelian varieties: Application of abstract Fourier theory.- Motives and filtrations on Chow groups II.- Zero cycles on singular varieties.- Arithmetic Methods.- Prepotentials of Yukawa couplings of certain Calabi-Yau 3-folds and mirror symmetry.- Weight-monodromy conjecture for 1-adic representations associated to modular forms: A supplement to the paper [10].- Cohomology computations related to the 1-adic Abel-Jacobi map modulo l.- Integral elements in K-theory and products of modular curves.- Appendix to Scholl’s article: A counterexample to a conjecture of Beilinson.- Reduction of abelian varieties.- The arithmetic of cetain Calabi-Yau varieties over number fields.- Classical and elliptic polylogarithms and special values of L-series.

Editorial Reviews

From the June 1998 Summer School come 20 contributions that explore algebraic cycles (a subfield of algebraic geometry) from a variety of perspectives. The papers have been organized into sections on cohomological methods, Chow groups and motives, and arithmetic methods. Some specific topics include logarithmic Hodge structures and classifying spaces; Bloch's conjecture and the -theory of projective surfaces; and torsion zero-cycles and the Abel-Jacobi map over the real numbers. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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