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    On the Tangent Space to the Space of Algebraic Cycles on a Smooth Algebraic Variety. (AM-157)
    On the Tangent Space to the Space of Algebraic Cycles on a Smooth Algebraic Variety. (AM-157)
    On the Tangent Space to the Space of Algebraic Cycles on a Smooth Algebraic Variety. (AM-157)
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    On the Tangent Space to the Space of Algebraic Cycles on a Smooth Algebraic Variety. (AM-157)

    By Mark Green and Phillip A. Griffiths

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    In recent years, considerable progress has been made in studying algebraic cycles using infinitesimal methods. These methods have usually been applied to Hodge-theoretic constructions such as the cycle class and the Abel-Jacobi map. Substantial advances have also occurred in the infinitesimal theory for subvarieties of a given smooth variety, centered around the normal bundle and the obstructions coming from the normal bundle's first cohomology group. Here, Mark Green and Phillip Griffiths set forth the initial stages of an infinitesimal theory for algebraic cycles.


    The book aims in part to understand the geometric basis and the limitations of Spencer Bloch's beautiful formula for the tangent space to Chow groups. Bloch's formula is motivated by algebraic K-theory and involves differentials over Q. The theory developed here is characterized by the appearance of arithmetic considerations even in the local infinitesimal theory of algebraic cycles. The map from the tangent space to the Hilbert scheme to the tangent space to algebraic cycles passes through a variant of an interesting construction in commutative algebra due to Angéniol and Lejeune-Jalabert. The link between the theory given here and Bloch's formula arises from an interpretation of the Cousin flasque resolution of differentials over Q as the tangent sequence to the Gersten resolution in algebraic K-theory. The case of 0-cycles on a surface is used for illustrative purposes to avoid undue technical complications.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPrinceton University Press
    Release dateDec 20, 2004
    ISBN9781400837175
    On the Tangent Space to the Space of Algebraic Cycles on a Smooth Algebraic Variety. (AM-157)
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    Mark Green

    Mark Green, New York Times bestselling author of Who Runs Congress?, worked with Ralph Nader for ten years in Washington, D.C., before serving for twelve years as New York City's Consumer Affairs Commissioner and Public Advocate. A television commentator, public interest lawyer, and the former Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City, Green is also the founder and president of the New Democracy Project, a national and urban affairs institute. He has been a lecturer at the New York University School of Law since 2002, and lives with his family in New York City.

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