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    In mathematics, birational geometry is a field of algebraic geometry in which the goal is to determine when two algebraic varieties are isomorphic outside...
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  • fundamental theorems for the birational geometry of surfaces is Castelnuovo's theorem. This states that any birational map between algebraic surfaces...
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  • canonical ring and therefore likewise the Kodaira dimension is a birational invariant: Any birational map between smooth compact complex manifolds induces an isomorphism...
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    a classification of algebraic surfaces in birational geometry, and other contributions in algebraic geometry. Enriques was born in Livorno, and brought...
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    Blowing up (category Birational geometry)
    Blowups are the most fundamental transformation in birational geometry, because every birational morphism between projective varieties is a blowup. The...
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    in the area of algebraic geometry and a professor at Princeton University. Xu is known for his work in birational geometry, the minimal model program...
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  • algebraic geometry, the minimal model program is part of the birational classification of algebraic varieties. Its goal is to construct a birational model...
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  • Kodaira dimension (category Birational geometry)
    1965. Iitaka 1970. Iitaka 1971. J. A. Chen and M. Chen, Explicit birational geometry of 3-folds and 4-folds of general type III, Theorem 1.4. O. Fujino...
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  • mathematics, the Italian school of algebraic geometry refers to mathematicians and their work in birational geometry, particularly on algebraic surfaces, centered...
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    Linear system of divisors (category Geometry of divisors)
    linear systems became a basic tool of birational geometry as practised by the Italian school of algebraic geometry. The technical demands became quite stringent;...
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    giving the fundamental Kleinian geometry on projective space, they concerned themselves also with the higher-degree birational transformations. This weaker...
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  • In algebraic geometry, a moduli space of (algebraic) curves is a geometric space (typically a scheme or an algebraic stack) whose points represent isomorphism...
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    modern birational geometry. In 2010 he received the Leverhulme Prize in mathematics and statistics for his contributions to algebraic geometry, and in...
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  • dimension 3 flips are used to construct minimal models, and any two birationally equivalent minimal models are connected by a sequence of flops. It is...
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    Hilbert's sixteenth problem Cubic plane curve Hyperelliptic curve Birational geometry Conic section Elliptic curve Fractional ideal Function field of an...
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  • Cremona group (category Birational geometry)
    In birational geometry, the Cremona group, named after Luigi Cremona, is the group of birational automorphisms of the n {\displaystyle n} -dimensional...
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  • In algebraic geometry, a birational invariant is a property that is preserved under birational equivalence. A birational invariant is a quantity or object...
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  • one of the most powerful formulas in algebraic geometry. An important tool of modern birational geometry is inversion of adjunction, which allows one to...
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  • Lüroth's theorem (category Birational geometry)
    In mathematics, Lüroth's theorem asserts that every field that lies between a field K and the rational function field K(X) must be generated as an extension...
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  • tremendously both from techniques in analysis and in pure birational geometry. Complex geometry has significant applications to theoretical physics, where...
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  • Absolute geometry Affine geometry Algebraic geometry Analytic geometry Birational geometry Complex geometry Computational geometry Conformal geometry Constructive...
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    awarded his Ph.D. ("candidate degree") in 1976. Shokurov works on the birational geometry of algebraic varieties. After obtaining his Ph.D., he worked at the...
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    Conic section (category Birational geometry)
    type of conic is determined by the value of the eccentricity. In analytic geometry, a conic may be defined as a plane algebraic curve of degree 2; that is...
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  • Iitaka dimension (category Birational geometry)
    to the general n. Therefore The study of the higher-dimensional birational geometry decompose to the part of κ=-∞,0,n and the fiber space whose fibers...
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  • tracing through the proof of the theorem it is possible to do so. Birational geometry Blowing up Function field of an algebraic variety Resolution of singularities...
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  • refer to: Minimal model (birational geometry), classification of algebraic varieties with the goal to construct a birational model of any complex projective...
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  • geometry can exhibit discontinuities of a kind that are detected by flatness. For instance, the operation of blowing down in the birational geometry of...
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  • Elliptic surface (category Birational geometry)
    In mathematics, an elliptic surface is a surface that has an elliptic fibration, in other words a proper morphism with connected fibers to an algebraic...
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  • Cox–Zucker machine (category Birational geometry)
    In arithmetic geometry, the Cox–Zucker machine is an algorithm created by David A. Cox and Steven Zucker. This algorithm determines whether a given set...
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  • Complex projective plane (category Projective geometry)
    the 5-sphere, i.e. torsion. In birational geometry, a complex rational surface is any algebraic surface birationally equivalent to the complex projective...
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