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Iterated Integrals and Cycles on Algebraic Manifolds (Nankai Tracts in Mathematics, Vol. 7)

Book information

Year
2004
ISBN
981238720X, 9789812387202, 9789812562579
Open Library ID
OL22650752M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4102279 bytes)
Pages
120\121
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This work has been of great interest both to topologists and to number theorists. The first part of this book describes some of the work of Kuo-Tsai Chen on iterated integrals and the fundamental group of a manifold. The author attempts to make his exposition accessible to beginning graduate students. He then proceeds to apply Chen's constructions to algebraic geometry, showing how this leads to some results on algebraic cycles and the Abel-Jacobi homomorphism. Finally, he presents a more general point of view relating Chen's integrals to a generalization of the concept of linking numbers, and ends up with a new invariant of homology classes in a projective algebraic manifold.

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