Applications of Algebraic Geometry to Coding Theory, Physics and Computation

An up-to-date report on the current status of important research topics in algebraic geometry and its applications, such as computational algebra and geometry, singularity theory algorithms, numerical solutions of polynomial systems, coding theory, communication networks, and computer vision. Contri...

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Other Authors: Ciliberto, Ciro (Editor), Hirzebruch, Friedrich (Editor), Miranda, Rick (Editor), Teicher, Mina (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2001, 2001
Edition:1st ed. 2001
Series:NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Vector bundles on singular projective curves
  • On double planes with Kodaira dimension zero
  • Computing minimal generators of ideals of elliptic curves
  • The Segre and Harbourne-Hirschowitz conjectures
  • Pillow degenerations of K3 surfaces
  • Computational algebraic geometry today
  • Some applications of algebraic curves to computational vision
  • Coding theory and algebraic curves over finite fields
  • Three algorithms in algebraic geometry, coding theory and singularity theory
  • Counting points on Calabi-Yau threefolds
  • Subvarieties of abelian varieties
  • Characteristic varieties of algebraic curves
  • Communication networks and Hilbert modular forms
  • Compact Kähler threefolds with small Picard numbers
  • Abelian varieties over the field of the 20th roots of unity that have good reduction everywhere
  • Using monodromy to decompose solution sets of polynomial systems into irreducible components
  • Diffeomorphisms and families of Fourier-Mukai transforms in mirror symmetry