Author(s): Stanislaw Lojasiewicz
Publisher: Springer
Year: 1991
Title page
Preface to the Polish Edition
Preface to the English Edition
PRELIMINARlES CHAPTER A. Algebra
1. Rings, fields, modules, ideals, vector spaces
2. Polynomials
3. Polynomial mappings
4. Symmetric polynomials. Discriminant
5. Extensions of fields
6. Factorial rings
7. Primitive element theorem
8. Extensions of rings
9. Noetherian rings
10. Local rings
11. Localization
12. Krull's dimension
13. Modules of syzygies and homological dimension
14. The depth of a module
15. Regular rings
CHAPTER B. Topology
1. Some topological properties of sets and families of sets
2. Open, closed and proper rnappings
3. Local homeomorphisms and coverings
4. Germs of sets and functions
5. The topology of a finite dimension al vector space (over C or R)
6. The topology of the Grassmann space
CHAPTER C. Complex analysis
1. Holomorphic mappings
2. The Weierstrass preparation theorem
3. Complex manifolds
4. The rank theorem. Submersions
COMPLEX ANALYTIC GEOMETRY CHAPTER I. Rings of germs of holomorphic functions
1. Elementary properties. Noether and local properties. Regularity
2. Unique factorization property
3. The Preparation Theorem in Thom-Martinet version
CHAPTER II. Analytic sets, analytic germs and their ideals
1. Dimension
2. Thin sets
3. Analytic sets and germs
4. Ideals of germs and the loci of ideals. Decomposition into simple germs
5. Principal germs
6. One-dimensional germs. The Puiseux theorem
CHAPTER III. Fundamental lemmas
1. Lemmas on quasi-covers
2. Regular and k-normal ideals and germs
3. Rückert's descriptive lemma
4. Hilbert's Nullstellensatz and other consequences (concerning dimension, regularity and k-normality)
CHAPTER IV. Geometry of analytic sets
1. Normal triples
2. Regular and singular points. Decomposition into simple components
3. Some properties of analytic germs and sets
4. The ring of an analytic germ. Zariski's dimension
5. The maximum principle
6. The Remmert-Stein removable singularity theorem
7. Regular separation
8. Analytically constructible sets
CHAPTER V. Holomorphic mappings
1. Some properties of holomorphic mappings of manifolds
2. The multiplicity theorem. Rouché's theorem
3. Holomorphic mappings of analytic sets
4. Analytic spaces
5. Remmert's proper mapping theorem
6. Remmert's open mapping theorem
7. Finite holomorphic mappings
8. c-holomorphic mappings
CHAPTER VI. Normalization
1. The Cartan and Oka coherence theorems
2. Normal spaces. Universal denominators
3. Normal points of analytic spaces
4. Normalization
CHAPTER VII. Analyticity and algebraicity
1. Algebraic sets and their ideals
2. The projective space as a manifold
3. The projective closure of a vector space
4. Grassmann manifolds
5. Blowings-up
6. Algebraic sets in projective spaces. Chow's theorem
7. The Rudin and Sadullaev theorems
8. Constructible sets. The Chevalley theorem
9. Rückert's lemma for algebraic sets
10. Hilbert's Nullstellensatz for polynomials
11. Further properties of algebraic sets. Principal varieties. Degree
12. The ring of an algebraic subset of a vedor space
13. Bézout's theorem. Biholomorphic mappings of projective spaces
14. Meromorphic functions and rational functions
15. Ideals of O_n with polynomial generators
16. Serre's algebraic graph theorem
17. Algebraic spaces
18. Biholomorphic mappings of factorial subsets in projective spaces
19. The Andreotti-Salmon theorem
20. Chow's theorem on biholomorphic mappings of Grassmann manifolds
References
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