Deformation Theory

• Main Author: Hartshorne, Robin (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
• Edition: 1.
• Series: Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 257
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Algebraic geometry.; Algebraic Geometry.

The basic problem of deformation theory in algebraic geometry involves watching a small deformation of one member of a family of objects, such as varieties, or subschemes in a fixed space, or vector bundles on a fixed scheme. In this new book, Robin Hartshorne studies first what happens over small i...