Synopses & Reviews
An exposition of the important geometric technique of calculating syzygies.
Synopsis
Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-366) and indexes.
Synopsis
The central theme of this book is an exposition of the geometric technique of calculating syzygies. Written from a point of view of commutative algebra, no knowledge of representation theory is assumed. Several important applications are carefully considered, with numerous exercises for the reader.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction; 2. Schur functions and Schur complexes; 3. Grassmannians and flag varieties; 4. Bott's theorem; 5. The geometric technique; 6. The determinantal varieties; 7. Higher rank varieties; 8. The nilpotent orbit closures; 9. Resultants and discriminants.