The concept of a period of an elliptic integral goes back to the 18th century. Later Abel, Gauss, Jacobi, Legendre, Weierstrass and others made a systematic study of these integrals. Rephrased in modern terminology, these give a way to encode how the complex structure of a two-torus varies, thereby showing that certain families contain all elliptic curves. Generalizing to higher dimensions resulted in the formulation of the celebrated Hodge conjecture, and in an attempt to solve this, Griffiths generalized the classical notion of period matrix and introduced period maps and period domains which reflect how the complex structure for higher dimensional varieties varies. The basic theory as developed by Griffiths is explained in the first part of the book. Then, in the second part spectral sequences and Koszul complexes are introduced and are used to derive results about cycles on higher dimensional algebraic varieties such as the Noether-Lefschetz theorem and Nori's theorem. Finally, in the third part differential geometric methods are explained leading up to proofs of Arakelov-type theorems, the theorem of the fixed part, the rigidity theorem, and more. Higgs bundles and relations to harmonic maps are discussed, and this leads to striking results such as the fact that compact quotients of certain period domains can never admit a Kahler metric or that certain lattices in classical Lie groups can't occur as the fundamental group of a Kahler manifold.

Period Mappings and Period Domains (Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics, Series Number 85)

Science & Math

Carlson, James

Peters, Chris

Müller-Stach, Stefan

Mathematics

Cambridge University Press

The NATO Advanced Study Institute on "The Arithmetic and Geometry of Algebraic Cycles" was held at the Banff Centre for Conferences in Banff (Al berta, Canada) from June 7 until June 19, 1998. This meeting was organized jointly with Centre de Recherches Mathematiques (CRM), Montreal, as one of the CRM Summer schools which take place annually at the Banff Center. The conference also served as the kick-off activity of the CRM 1998-99 theme year on Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry. There were 109 participants who came from 17 countries: Belgium, Canada, China, France, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, - mania, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. During a period of two weeks, 41 invited lectures and 20 contributed lec tures were presented. Four lectures by invited speakers were delivered every day, followed by two sessions of contributed talks. Many informal discussions and working sessions involving small groups were organized by individual partic ipants. In addition, participants' reprints and preprints were displayed through out in a lounge next to the auditorium, which further enhanced opportunities for communication and interaction.

The Arithmetic and Geometry of Algebraic Cycles (Nato Science Series C:, 548)

Brent Gordon, B.

Lewis, James D.

Saito, Shuji

Springer

This up-to-date introduction to Griffiths' theory of period maps and period domains focusses on algebraic, group-theoretic and differential geometric aspects. Starting with an explanation of Griffiths' basic theory, the authors go on to introduce spectral sequences and Koszul complexes that are used to derive results about cycles on higher-dimensional algebraic varieties such as the Noether-Lefschetz theorem and Nori's theorem. They explain differential geometric methods, leading up to proofs of Arakelov-type theorems, the theorem of the fixed part and the rigidity theorem. They also use Higgs bundles and harmonic maps to prove the striking result that not all compact quotients of period domains are Kähler. This thoroughly revised second edition includes a new third part covering important recent developments, in which the group-theoretic approach to Hodge structures is explained, leading to Mumford-Tate groups and their associated domains, the Mumford-Tate varieties and generalizations of Shimura varieties.

Period Mappings and Period Domains (Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics)

This book casts the theory of periods of algebraic varieties in the natural setting of Madhav Nori’s abelian category of mixed motives. It develops Nori’s approach to mixed motives from scratch, thereby filling an important gap in the literature, and then explains the connection of mixed motives to periods, including a detailed account of the theory of period numbers in the sense of Kontsevich-Zagier and their structural properties.Period numbers are central to number theory and algebraic geometry, and also play an important role in other fields such as mathematical physics. There are long-standing conjectures about their transcendence properties, best understood in the language of cohomology of algebraic varieties or, more generally, motives. Readers of this book will discover that Nori’s unconditional construction of an abelian category of motives (over fields embeddable into the complex numbers) is particularly well suited for this purpose. Notably, Kontsevich's formal period algebra represents a torsor under the motivic Galois group in Nori's sense, and the period conjecture of Kontsevich and Zagier can be recast in this setting.Periods and Nori Motives is highly informative and will appeal to graduate students interested in algebraic geometry and number theory as well as researchers working in related fields. Containing relevant background material on topics such as singular cohomology, algebraic de Rham cohomology, diagram categories and rigid tensor categories, as well as many interesting examples, the overall presentation of this book is self-contained.

Periods and Nori Motives (Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete. 3. Folge / A Series of Modern Surveys in Mathematics, 65)

Huber, Annette

Motiviert durch aktuelle Entwicklungen in der abhängigen Typentheorie und bei Unendlichkategorien präsentiert dieses Buch die Ideengeschichte der Begriffe Wahrheit, Beweis, Gleichheit und Äquivalenz. Neben ausgewählten Ideen von Platon, Aristoteles, Leibniz, Kant, Frege und anderen werden Resultate von Gödel und Tarski über Unvollständigkeit, Unentscheidbarkeit und Wahrheit in deduktiven Systemen und ihren semantischen Modellen vorgestellt. Der Hauptgegenstand dieses Textes ist die abhängige Typentheorie und neuere Entwicklungen in der Homotopy Type Theory. Diese Theorien beinhalten Identitätstypen, die neue Möglichkeiten für Gleichheit, Symmetrie, Äquivalenz und Isomorphie auf konzeptuelle Weise eröffnen. Die Interaktion von Typentheorie und Unendlichkategorien ist ein neues Paradigma für eine strukturelle Sichtweise auf die Mathematik. Sie fördert auch den neuen Trend zur Formalisierung von Mathematik in Form von Beweisassistenten.

Der Code der Mathematik: Beweis und Wahrheit (German Edition)

Springer Spektrum

Richard Dedekind: Was sind und was sollen die Zahlen? Stetigkeit und Irrationale Zahlen (Klassische Texte der Wissenschaft) (German Edition)

Inspired by recent developments in dependent type theory and infinity categories, this book presents a history of ideas around the topics of truth, proof, equality and equivalence. Besides selected ideas of Platon, Aristoteles, Leibniz, Kant, Frege and others, the results of Gödel and Tarski on incompleteness, undecidability and truth in deductive systems and their semantic models are covered. The main focus of this textbook is on dependent type theory and its recent variant homotopy type theory. Such theories contain identity types, which give a new understanding of equality, symmetry, equivalence and isomorphism in a conceptual way. The interaction of type theory and infinity category theory yields a new paradigm for a structural view on mathematics. This supports the tendencies towards formalising mathematics with the help of proof assistants. This book was first published in German. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence. A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content.

The Code of Mathematics: Proof and Truth (Mathematics Study Resources, 11)

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Period Mappings and Period Domains (Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics, Series Number 85)

The Arithmetic and Geometry of Algebraic Cycles (Nato Science Series C:, 548)

Period Mappings and Period Domains (Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics)

Period Mappings and Period Domains (Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics, Series Number 85)

Period Mappings and Period Domains (Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics)

Period Mappings and Period Domains (Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics)

Periods and Nori Motives (Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete. 3. Folge / A Series of Modern Surveys in Mathematics, 65)

Der Code der Mathematik: Beweis und Wahrheit (German Edition)

Richard Dedekind: Was sind und was sollen die Zahlen? Stetigkeit und Irrationale Zahlen (Klassische Texte der Wissenschaft) (German Edition)

The Code of Mathematics: Proof and Truth (Mathematics Study Resources, 11)