Two volume work containing a contemporary account on "Positivity in Algebraic Geometry"

Both volumes also available as hardcover editions as Vols. 48 and 49 in the series "Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete"

A good deal of the material has not previously appeared in book form

Volume II is more at the research level and somewhat more specialized than Volume I

Volume II contains a survey of positivity for vector bundles, and moves on to a systematic development of the theory of multiplier ideals and their applications

Contains many concrete examples, applications, and pointers to further developments

Inhalt

Notation and Conventions.- Two: Positivity for Vector Bundles.- 6 Ample and Nef Vector Bundles.- 6.1 Classical Theory.- 6.1.A Definition and First Properties.- 6.1.B Cohomological Properties.- 6.1.C Criteria for Amplitude.- 6.1.D Metric Approaches to Positivity of Vector Bundles.- 6.2 Q-Twisted and Nef Bundles.- 6.2.A Twists by Q-Divisors.- 6.2.B Nef Bundles.- 6.3 Examples and Constructions.- 6.3.A Normal and Tangent Bundles.- 6.3.B Ample Cotangent Bundles and Hyperbolicity.- 6.3.C Picard Bundles.- 6.3.D The Bundle Associated to a Branched Covering.- 6.3.E Direct Images of Canonical Bundles.- 6.3.F Some Constructions of Positive Vector Bundles.- 6.4 Ample Vector Bundles on Curves.- 6.4.A Review of Semistability.- 6.4.B Semistability and Amplitude.- Notes.- 7 Geometric Properties of Ample Bundles.- 7.1 Topology.- 7.1.A Sommese's Theorem.- 7.1.B Theorem of Bloch and Gieseker.- 7.1.C A Barth-Type Theorem for Branched Coverings.- 7.2 Degeneracy Loci.- 7.2.A Statements and First Examples.- 7.2.B Proof of Connectedness of Degeneracy Loci.- 7.2.C Some Applications.- 7.2.D Variants and Extensions.- 7.3 Vanishing Theorems.- 7.3.A Vanishing Theorems of Griffiths and Le Potier.- 7.3.B Generalizations.- Notes.- 8 Numerical Properties of Ample Bundles.- 8.1 Preliminaries from Intersection Theory.- 8.1.A Chern Classes for Q-Twisted Bundles.- 8.1.B Cone Classes.- 8.1.C Cone Classes for Q-Twists.- 8.2 Positivity Theorems.- 8.2.A Positivity of Chern Classes.- 8.2.B Positivity of Cone Classes.- 8.3 Positive Polynomials for Ample Bundles.- 8.4 Some Applications.- 8.4.A Positivity of Intersection Products.- 8.4.B Non-Emptiness of Degeneracy Loci.- 8.4.C Singularities of Hypersurfaces Along a Curve.- Notes.- Three: Multiplier Ideals and Their Applications.- 9 Multiplier Ideal Sheaves.- 9.1 Preliminaries.- 9.1.A Q-Divisors.- 9.1.B Normal Crossing Divisors and Log Resolutions.- 9.1.C The Kawamata-Viehweg Vanishing Theorem.- 9.2 Definition and First Properties.- 9.2.A Definition of Multiplier Ideals.- 9.2.B First Properties.- 9.3 Examples and Complements.- 9.3.A Multiplier Ideals and Multiplicity.- 9.3.B Invariants Arising from Multiplier Ideals.- 9.3.C Monomial Ideals.- 9.3.D Analytic Construction of Multiplier Ideals.- 9.3.E Adjoint Ideals.- 9.3.F Multiplier and Jacobian Ideals.- 9.3.G Multiplier Ideals on Singular Varieties.- 9.4 Vanishing Theorems for Multiplier Ideals.- 9.4.A Local Vanishing for Multiplier Ideals.- 9.4.B The Nadel Vanishing Theorem.- 9.4.C Vanishing on Singular Varieties.- 9.4.D Nadel's Theorem in the Analytic Setting.- 9.4.E Non-Vanishing and Global Generation.- 9.5 Geometric Properties of Multiplier Ideals.- 9.5.A Restrictions of Multiplier Ideals.- 9.5.B Subadditivity.- 9.5.C The Summation Theorem.- 9.5.D Multiplier Ideals in Families.- 9.5.E Coverings.- 9.6 Skoda's Theorem.- 9.6.A Integral Closure of Ideals.- 9.6.B Skoda's Theorem: Statements.- 9.6.C Skoda's Theorem: Proofs.- 9.6.D Variants.- Notes.- 10 Some Applications of Multiplier Ideals.- 10.1 Singularities.- 10.1.A Singularities of Projective Hypersurfaces.- 10.1.B Singularities of Theta Divisors.- 10.1.C A Criterion for Separation of Jets of Adjoint Series.- 10.2 Matsusaka's Theorem.- 10.3 Nakamaye's Theorem on Base Loci.- 10.4 Global Generation of Adjoint Linear Series.- 10.4.A Fujita Conjecture and Angehrn-Siu Theorem.- 10.4.B Loci of Log-Canonical Singularities.- 10.4.C Proof of the Theorem of Angehrn and Siu.- 10.5 The Effective Nullstellensatz.- Notes.- 11 Asymptotic Constructions.- 11.1 Construction of Asymptotic Multiplier Ideals.- 11.1.A Complete Linear Series.- 11.1.B Graded Systems of Ideals and Linear Series.- 11.2 Properties of Asymptotic Multiplier Ideals.- 11.2.A Local Statements.- 11.2.B Global Results.- 11.2.C Multiplicativity of Plurigenera.- 11.3 Growth of Graded Families and Symbolic Powers.- 11.4 Fujita's Approximation Theorem.- 11.4.A Statement and First Consequences.- 11.4.B Proof of Fujita's Theorem.- 11.4.C The Dual of the Pseudoeffective Cone.- 11.5.- Notes.- References.- Glossary of Notation.