Commutative Algebra And Algebraic Geometry: Joint International Meeting of the American Mathematical Society And the Indian Mathematical Society on ... Geometry, Ba

These fifteen papers were first presented at "Young Session" and "Special Session" of the first joint American Mathematical Society-India Mathematics Meeting held in December of 2003. The papers cover diverse topics in the areas of commutative algebra and algebraic geometry. Examples include simultaneous surface resolution in quadratic and biquadratic Galois extensions, asymptotic behavior of cohomology, conic divisor classes over a normal monoid algebra, Rees algebras of the second syzygy module of the residue field of a regular local ring, a local global principle for the elementary unimodular vector group, picture invariants and the isomorphism problem for complex semisimple Lie algebras, arithmetic rank of certain Segre products, and strong semistability and Hilbert-Kunz multiplicity for singular plane curves. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)