The Adjunction Theory of Complex Projective Varieties (De Gruyter Expositions in Mathematics Book 16)

The aim of the Expositions is to present new and important developments in pure and applied mathematics. Well established in the community over more than two decades, the series offers a large library of mathematical works, including several important classics. The volumes supply thorough and detailed expositions of the methods and ideas essential to the topics in question. In addition, they convey their relationships to other parts of mathematics. The series is addressed to advanced readers interested in a thorough study of the subject. Editorial Board Lev Birbrair , Universidade Federal do Cear�, Fortaleza, Brasil Walter D. Neumann , Columbia University, New York, USA Markus J. Pflaum , University of Colorado, Boulder, USA Dierk Schleicher , Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany Katrin Wendland , University of Freiburg, Germany Honorary Editor Victor P. Maslov , Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia Titles in planning include Yuri A. Bahturin, Identical Relations in Lie Algebras (2019) Yakov G. Berkovich, Lev G. Kazarin, and Emmanuel M. Zhmud', Characters of Finite Groups , Volume 2 (2019) Jorge Herbert Soares de Lira, Variational Problems for Hypersurfaces in Riemannian Manifolds (2019) Volker Mayer, Mariusz Urbański, and Anna Zdunik, Random and Conformal Dynamical Systems (2021) Ioannis Diamantis, Bostjan Gabrovsek, Sofia Lambropoulou, and Maciej Mroczkowski, Knot Theory of Lens Spaces (2021)

The aim of the series is to present new and important developments in pure and applied mathematics. Well established in the community over two decades, it offers a large library of mathematics including several important classics.

The volumes supply thorough and detailed expositions of the methods and ideas essential to the topics in question. In addition, they convey their relationships to other parts of mathematics. The series is addressed to advanced readers wishing to thoroughly study the topic.

Editorial Board

Lev Birbrair, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brasil
Walter D. Neumann, Columbia University, New York, USA
Markus J. Pflaum, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Dierk Schleicher, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany
Katrin Wendland, University of Freiburg, Germany

Honorary Editor

Victor P. Maslov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Titles in planning include

Yuri A. Bahturin, Identical Relations in Lie Algebras (2019)
Yakov G. Berkovich and Z. Janko, Groups of Prime Power Order, Volume 6 (2019)
Yakov G. Berkovich, Lev G. Kazarin, and Emmanuel M. Zhmud', Characters of Finite Groups, Volume 2 (2019)
Jorge Herbert Soares de Lira, Variational Problems for Hypersurfaces in Riemannian Manifolds (2019)
Volker Mayer, Mariusz Urba?ski, and Anna Zdunik, Random and Conformal Dynamical Systems (2021)
Ioannis Diamantis, Boštjan Gabrovšek, Sofia Lambropoulou, and Maciej Mroczkowski, Knot Theory of Lens Spaces (2021)

The aim of the Expositions is to present new and important developments in pure and applied mathematics. Well established in the community over more than two decades, the series offers a large library of mathematical works, including several important classics. The volumes supply thorough and detailed expositions of the methods and ideas essential to the topics in question. In addition, they convey their relationships to other parts of mathematics. The series is addressed to advanced readers interested in a thorough study of the subject. Editorial Board Lev Birbrair, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, BrasilWalter D. Neumann, Columbia University, New York, USAMarkus J. Pflaum, University of Colorado, Boulder, USADierk Schleicher, Aix-Marseille Université, FranceKatrin Wendland, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland Honorary Editor Victor P. Maslov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia Titles in planning include Yuri A. Bahturin, Identical Relations in Lie Algebras (2019)Yakov G. Berkovich, Lev G. Kazarin, and Emmanuel M. Zhmud', Characters of Finite Groups, Volume 2 (2019)Jorge Herbert Soares de Lira, Variational Problems for Hypersurfaces in Riemannian Manifolds (2019)Volker Mayer, Mariusz Urbański, and Anna Zdunik, Random and Conformal Dynamical Systems (2021)Ioannis Diamantis, Boštjan Gabrovšek, Sofia Lambropoulou, and Maciej Mroczkowski, Knot Theory of Lens Spaces (2021) Frontmatter -- Chapter 1. General background results -- Chapter 2. Consequences of positivity -- Chapter 3. The basic varieties of adjunction theory -- Chapter 4. The Hilbert scheme and extremal rays -- Chapter 5. Restrictions imposed by ample divisors -- Chapter 6. Families of unbreakable rational curves -- Chapter 7. General adjunction theory -- Chapter 8. Background for classical adjunction theory -- Chapter 9. The adjunction mapping -- Chapter 10. Classical adjunction theory of surfaces -- Chapter 11. Classical adjunction theory in dimension {u2265} 3 -- Chapter 12. The second reduction in dimension three -- Chapter 13. Varieties ({u2133}, {u2112}) with k(MO + (dim {u2133} -- 2){u2112}){u2265}0 -- Chapter 14. Special varieties -- Bibliography -- Index An overview of developments in the past 15 years of adjunction theory, the study of the interplay between the intrinsic geometry of a projective variety and the geometry connected with some embedding of the variety into a projective space. Topics include consequences of positivity, the Hilbert schem