96734 - Scheme Theory

Academic Year 2022/2023

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Mathematics (cod. 5827)

Learning outcomes

At the end of this course, the student knows the basic notions of scheme theory. These can be applied in their research field in algebra and geometry.

Course contents

Scheme theory, which was developed by Alexander Grothendieck, is the modern and rigorous language with which one studies algebraic geometry. It unifies classical algebraic geometry and algebraic number theory.

The topics of this class include: sheaves, schemes, global and local properties of schemes, coherent sheaves, sheaf cohomology.

Necessary prerequisite: commutative algebra (as treated in the course 06689).
It is recommended that the student has some familiarity with basic notions of algebraic geometry, in particular:
- projective space and plane algebraic curves (as treated in the course 54777)
- geometry of affine varieties and of quasi-projective varieties (as treated in the first chapter of the book by Hartshorne, or in the first part of the courses 96733 and 66734).


More precise information can be found in the webpage of the last year: https://www.dm.unibo.it/~andrea.petracci3/2023Schemi/

Readings/Bibliography

Hartshorne, Algebraic geometry, GTM 52, Springer

Liu, Algebraic Geometry and Arithmetic Curves, Oxford Graduate Texts in Mathematics

 

Other sources:

Mumford, The Red Book of Varieties and Schemes, Springer

Eisenbud & Harris, The geometry of schemes, GTM 197, Springer

Görtz & Wedhorn, Algebraic geometry, I & II, Vieweg+Teubner

Teaching methods

Blackboard lectures

Assessment methods

Homework + Oral exam

Links to further information

https://www.dm.unibo.it/~andrea.petracci3/2023Schemi/

Office hours

See the website of Andrea Petracci