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Author Keel, Seán, author

Title Rational curves on quasi-projective surfaces / Seán Keel, James McKernan
Published Providence, Rhode Island : American Mathematical Society, [1999]
©1999

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Description 1 online resource (169 pages) : illustrations
Series Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, 0065-9266 ; number 669
Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society ; no. 669.
Contents Abstract -- 1 Introduction and Statement of Results -- 2 Glossary of notation and conventions -- 3 Gorenstein del Pezzo surfaces -- 4 Bug-Eyed covers -- 5 Log deformation theory -- 6 Criteria for log uniruledness -- 7 Reduction to s[sup(alg)][sub(1)](S[sup(0)]) = {1} -- 8 Flushness and Preparation for the Hunt -- 9 Bogomolov Bound -- 10 Riemann Roch and Surfaces with Small Coefficient -- 11 A partial classification of K[sub(T)]-contractions -- 12 The linear system
16 A\ has a simple cusp -- 17 A\ has a simple node -- 18 Ai smooth -- 19 The smooth banana -- 20 Proof of (1.1) and corollaries -- 21 A surface with s[sup(alg)][sub(1)](S[sup(0)]) = {1} but no tiger -- 22 Tigers, complements and toric pairs -- 23 Classification of almost all rank one log del Pezzos -- Appendix L: Log terminal surface singularities and adjunction -- Appendix N: Normalisation of an algebraic space -- Index to Obscure or unconventional notation -- References
Notes "July 1999, volume 140, number 669 (third of 4 numbers)."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Surfaces, Algebraic.
Algebraic varieties.
Algebraic varieties
Surfaces, Algebraic
Form Electronic book
Author McKernan, James, 1964- author.
ISBN 9781470402600
1470402602