Deformation Spaces Perspectives on algebro-geometric moduli /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Abbaspour, Hossein (Editor), Marcolli, Matilde (Editor), Tradler, Thomas (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Vieweg+Teubner, 2010.
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Algebra.; Algebraic geometry.; Geometry.; Algebraic Geometry.

The first instances of deformation theory were given by Kodaira and Spencer for complex structures and by Gerstenhaber for associative algebras. Since then, deformation theory has been applied as a useful tool in the study of many other mathematical structures, and even today it plays an important r...