Characteristic classes of discriminants and enumerative geometry

DOI10.1080/00927879808826335zbMath0934.14039OpenAlexW2054748420MaRDI QIDQ4210782

Paolo Aluffi

Publication date: 27 April 2000

Published in: Communications in Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/00927879808826335

zbMATH Keywords

Chern classcharacteristic classesEuler obstructiondiscriminant hypersurfacevery ample linear systemtacnodal locus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Enumerative problems (combinatorial problems) in algebraic geometry (14N10) Divisors, linear systems, invertible sheaves (14C20) Homology of classifying spaces and characteristic classes in algebraic topology (55R40)

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Segre Classes and Invariants of Singular Varieties ⋮ Refined curve counting on complex surfaces ⋮ How tangents solve algebraic equations, or a remarkable geometry of discriminant varieties ⋮ Characteristic classes of affine varieties and Plücker formulas for affine morphisms ⋮ Enumeration of singular algebraic curves ⋮ THE CHERN–SCHWARTZ–MACPHERSON CLASS OF AN EMBEDDABLE SCHEME ⋮ Complements to Ample Divisors and Singularities ⋮ Computing characteristic classes of projective schemes.

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