Varieties

Igor R. Shafarevich
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Igor R. Shafarevich: Steklov Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Algebra Section

Chapter Chapter 6 in Basic Algebraic Geometry 2, 2013, pp 49-111 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Scheme theory provides the modern definition of a variety, and a convenient language for all the constructions of algebraic geometry, ancient and modern. A variety over an algebraically closed field k is a separated reduced scheme of finite type over k. The general properties of quasiprojective varieties from Volume 1 of the book are reinterpreted in this intrinsic framework. There follows a comparison between varieties and projective varieties, including an intrinsic treatment of blowups, Chow’s lemma that any variety has a blowup that is quasiprojective, and a brief discussion of different criteria for a variety to be projective. On the other hand, an example is given (and illustrated on the front cover of Volume 2) of a complete variety that cannot be embedded in any projective space. The chapter also discusses in some detail two other circles of ideas: sheaves of modules, including locally free sheaves and coherent sheaves, and the idea of a scheme representing a functor, that plays an central role in the modern theory of moduli.

Keywords: Vector Bundle; Line Bundle; Algebraic Variety; Projective Variety; Coherent Sheave (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-38010-5_2

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