Overview
The main theme of this book is the homotopy principle for holomorphic mappings from Stein manifolds to the newly introduced class of Oka manifolds. The book contains the first complete account of Oka-Grauert theory and its modern extensions, initiated by Mikhail Gromov and developed in the last decade by the author and his collaborators. Included is the first systematic presentation of the theory of holomorphic automorphisms of complex Euclidean spaces, a survey on Stein neighborhoods, connections between the geometry of Stein surfaces and Seiberg-Witten theory, and a wide variety of applications ranging from classical to contemporary.
Full Product Details
Author: Franc Forstnerič
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition: 2011 ed.
Volume: 56
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 2.60cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.916kg
ISBN: 9783642222498
ISBN 10: 3642222498
Pages: 492
Publication Date: 28 August 2011
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
From the reviews: The main focus of the book is the theory of the Oka principle, which has been extensively developed in the past decade following a seminal paper of Gromov in 1989. ... The book can serve as a textbook for advanced graduate students specialising in complex geometry, as a reference for researchers in the field, and as an accessible resource for people in related areas. The book truly fills a gap in the literature. ... a standard reference for years to come. (Finnur Larusson, Mathematical Reviews, May, 2013)
From the reviews: “The main focus of the book is the theory of the Oka principle, which has been extensively developed in the past decade following a seminal paper of Gromov in 1989. … The book can serve as a textbook for advanced graduate students specialising in complex geometry, as a reference for researchers in the field, and as an accessible resource for people in related areas. The book truly fills a gap in the literature. … a standard reference for years to come.” (Finnur Lárusson, Mathematical Reviews, May, 2013)
Author Information
Franc Forstneric has published close to eighty research and survey papers in complex analysis and geometry, including several in leading mathematical journals such as the Annals of Math., Acta Math., Inventiones Math., Duke Math. J., Amer. J. Math., Math. Ann., and others. He held long term teaching and research positions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Madison, USA), Institut Mittag-Leffler (Stockholm, Sweden), Max Planck Institute (Bonn, Germany), as well as visiting positions at more than ten other institutions. He was an invited speaker at over 70 international conferences and workshops. Since 2000 he is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Ljubljana and is a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Slovenia
