Compact complex surfaces
classification of algebraic surfacescomplex algebraic surfacesdeformation theoryDonaldson invariantsEnriques surfacesfibrationsK3-surfacesperiod domainsperiod mappingsSeiberg-Witten invariantssurfaces of general typetopology of surfaces
Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to algebraic geometry (14-02) Picard groups (14C22) Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10) Moduli, classification: analytic theory; relations with modular forms (14J15) (K3) surfaces and Enriques surfaces (14J28) Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) Topology of surfaces (Donaldson polynomials, Seiberg-Witten invariants) (14J80) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to several complex variables and analytic spaces (32-02) Complex-analytic moduli problems (32G13) Compact complex surfaces (32J15) Transcendental methods of algebraic geometry (complex-analytic aspects) (32J25)
The first edition of this well-known and very popular standard text on compact complex surfaces was published in 1984, back then written by \textit{W. Barth}, \textit{C. Peters} and \textit{A. Van de Ven} (1984; Zbl 0718.14023). Apart from the modern treatises on complex surfaces by \textit{I. R. Shafarevich}, \textit{B. G. Averbukh}, \textit{J. R. Vajnberg}, \textit{A. B. Zizhchenko}, \textit{Yu. I. Manin}, \textit{B. G. Mojshezon}, \textit{G. N. Tyurina}, \textit{A. N. Tyurin} and \textit{A. Beauville} [Astérisque 54, 1--172 (1978; Zbl 0394.14014)], the first edition of the book under review offered the only up-to-date account of the subject in textbook form. Moreover, for almost twenty years it has been by far the most comprehensive textbook on complex surfaces from the modern point of view. The first edition contained eight main chapters on about 300 pages, concluding with the classification of K3 surfaces and Enriques surfaces. The book under review is the second, substantially enlarged edition of this standard text, this time with K. Hulek as fourth co-author. In fact, in the two decades after the appearance of the first edition of the book, several crucial developments in the theory of complex surfaces have taken place, and the authors have taken the opportunity to update the original text by including some of those recent achievements. The most important progress in the theory of complex surfaces has been made in regard of a better understanding of their differentiable structure (as real 4-manifolds), not at least in view of their appearance in mathematical physics. The new invariants discovered by Donaldson, on the one hand, and by Seiberg and Witten, on the other hand, stand for these spectacular recent developments. Other far-reaching achievements have been obtained by means of the study of nef-divisors on surfaces, parallel to progress made in the birational classification of higher-dimensional algebraic varieties, and also the Kähler structures on complex surfaces are now much better understood. Finally, I. Reider's new approach to adjoint mappings, Bogomolov's inequality for the Chern classes of rank-2 vector bundles on surfaces, and the mirror symmetry properties of K3 surfaces represent just as important new insights in the theory of complex surfaces. Well, all these recent developments have been worked into the present new edition, in one way or another, and the text has grown to 436 pages, that is by more than forty percent. Apart from the correction of some minor irregularities in the first edition, the authors have left the well-proven original text basically intact. The enlargement of the material has been contrived by the addition of the new Chapter 9 entitled ``Topological and Differentiable Structure of Surfaces, including an introduction to Donaldson and Seiberg-Witten invariants (mainly by instructive examples), and by substantially enhancing Chapter 4 (``Some General Properties of Surfaces). This chapter comes now with twelve (instead of eight) sections and includes the above-mentioned topics such as the nef cone, Bogomolov's inequality, Reider's method, and the existence of Kähler metrics on surfaces. There are also some other refining polishings and rearrangements in Chapter 5 (``Examples) and Chapter 8 (``K3-Surfaces and Enriques Surfaces). As to the contents of Chapter 8, three sections on special topics have been added, too, discussing the mirror symmetry phenomenon for projective K3-surfaces, special curves on K3-surfaces and an application to hyperbolic geometry, respectively. Needless to say, the bibliography has been updated and tremendously enlarged, thereby reflecting the vast activity in the field during the past twenty years. Now as before, the text is enriched by numerous instructive examples, but there are still no exercises for self-control, stimulus for further reading, or different outlooks. All in all, the second, enlarged edition of this (meanwhile classic) textbook on complex surfaces has gained a good deal of topicality and disciplinary depth, while having maintained its high degree of systematic methodology, lucidity, rigor, and cultured style. No doubt, this book remains a must for everyone dealing with complex algebraic surfaces, be it a student, an active researcher in complex geometry, or a mathematically ambitioned (quantum) physicist.
- Non-classical Godeaux surfaces
- Remarks on families of singular curves with hyperelliptic normalizations
- Quotients of fake projective planes
- A simply connected surface of general type with \(p_{g}=0\) and \(K^{2}=3\)
- A simply connected surface of general type with \(p_{g}=0\) and \(K^{2}=4\)
- Nonlinear Dirac operator and quaternionic analysis
- Generalized Fermat curves
- A geometric approach to tau-functions of difference Painlevé equations
- Algebraic surfaces and holomorphic vector bundles
- Connected components of the moduli of elliptic \(K3\) surfaces
- On the Prym map of cyclic coverings
- A Monte Carlo exploration of threefold base geometries for 4d F-theory vacua
- Heterotic line bundle models on elliptically fibered Calabi-Yau three-folds
- F-theory models on K3 surfaces with various Mordell-Weil ranks -- constructions that use quadratic base change of rational elliptic surfaces
- A factorization theorem for curves with vanishing self-intersection
- Slope inequality for families of curves over surfaces
- F-theory on quotient threefolds with (2,0) discrete superconformal matter
- A degree bound for families of rational curves on surfaces
- In memoriam of Wolf Barth (1942--2016)
- On prime degree isogenies between \(K3\) surfaces
- HC-equivalence vs numerical equivalence for ample line bundles on surfaces
- A smoothness test for higher codimensions
- Twistor space of a generalized quaternionic Kähler manifold
- Exceptional collections on Dolgachev surfaces associated with degenerations
- Compact fibrations with hyperkähler fibers
- Smooth surfaces in smooth fourfolds with vanishing first Chern class
- The complex geometry of a hypothetical complex structure on S^6
- Two-dimensional irreducible algebraic semigroups
- Examples of genus two fibrations with no sections on rational surfaces
- Donaldson-Witten theory and indefinite theta functions
- A note on surfaces with \(p_{g} = q = 2\) and an irrational fibration
- Compact surfaces with no Bonnet mate
- K-semistability of cscK manifolds with transcendental cohomology class
- Several special complex structures and their deformation properties
- Optimal bounds for T-singularities in stable surfaces
- The Oort conjecture on Shimura curves in the Torelli locus of curves
- Algebraic surfaces with \(p_g =q =1\), \(K^2 =4\) and genus 3 Albanese fibration
- Topological and Hodge L-classes of singular covering spaces and varieties with trivial canonical class
- Kähler structures on spin 6-manifolds
- Construction of Nikulin configurations on some Kummer surfaces and applications
- Milnor fibers and symplectic fillings of quotient surface singularities
- Infinitesimal deformations of rational surface automorphisms
- Double coverings with \(h^{2, 0} = 0\) over compact Kähler manifolds
- Constructions and classifications of projective Poisson varieties
- Eigenvalues of curvature, Lyapunov exponents and Harder-Narasimhan filtrations
- A note on the deformations of almost complex structures on closed four-manifolds
- On the canonical line bundle of a locally Hermitian symmetric space
- Supersymmetric \(\mathrm{AdS}_{3}\) supergravity backgrounds and holography
- A note on co-Higgs bundles
- Isomorphic quartic \(K3\) surfaces in the view of Cremona and projective transformations
- Fibrations of genus two on complex surfaces
- Kähler-Einstein metrics on strictly pseudoconvex domains
- Minimal complex surfaces with Levi-Civita Ricci-flat metrics
- Special arithmetic of flavor
- Gorenstein stable Godeaux surfaces
- Aspherical neighborhoods on arithmetic surfaces: the local case
- Supersymmetry on curved spaces and holography
- Torsion free sheaves on Weierstrass cubic curves and the classical Yang-Baxter equation
- Elliptic K3 surfaces as dynamical models and their Hamiltonian monodromy
- Exotic structures arising from fake projective planes
- Contracting exceptional divisors by the Kähler-Ricci flow
- Seshadri positive submanifolds of polarized manifolds
- Enriques surfaces: Brauer groups and Kummer structures
- Finite Hilbert stability of (bi)canonical curves
- Singular \(\mathbb{Q}\)-homology planes of negative Kodaira dimension have smooth locus of non-general type
- Singular sets of holonomy maps for algebraic foliations
- Compact complex surfaces with geometric structures related to split quaternions
- Rank 2 Ulrich bundles on general double plane covers
- Moduli of lattice polarized \(K3\) surfaces via relative canonical resolutions
- The Bolza curve and some orbifold ball quotient surfaces
- On the homeomorphism type of smooth projective fourfolds
- On the non-existence of static pluriclosed metrics on non-Kähler minimal complex surfaces
- Algebraic surfaces with zero-dimensional cohomology support locus
- On invariance of plurigenera for foliations on surfaces
- \(\partial\overline{\partial}\)-complex symplectic and Calabi-Yau manifolds: Albanese map, deformations and period maps
- The structure of vector bundles on non-primary Hopf manifolds
- Curves on Heisenberg invariant quartic surfaces in projective 3-space
- Compactifications of the moduli space of plane quartics and two lines
- The classification of purely non-symplectic automorphisms of high order on \(K3\) surfaces
- First Chern class and birational germs of Kato surfaces
- Bogomolov's inequality for Higgs sheaves in positive characteristic
- Some lower bounds for the canonical volume of 3-folds of general type
- Complete intersections of quadrics and complete intersections on Segre varieties with common specializations
- Perversity equals weight for Painlevé spaces
- Ricci-flat metrics and dynamics on \(K3\) surfaces
- Extremal length in higher dimensions and complex systolic inequalities
- Mirror symmetry for \(K3\) surfaces
- Rationalizability of square roots
- Equality in the Bogomolov-Miyaoka-Yau inequality in the non-general type case
- Obstructions to deforming curves on an Enriques-Fano 3-fold
- Complex multiplication and Brauer groups of \(K3\) surfaces
- Projectively flat klt varieties
- Mapping class groups, multiple Kodaira fibrations, and CAT(0) spaces
- On the existence of universal families of marked irreducible holomorphic symplectic manifolds
- Brill-Noether general \(K3\) surfaces with the maximal number of elliptic pencils of minimal degree
- Twistor lines in the period domain of complex tori
- BHK mirror symmetry for \(K3\) surfaces with non-symplectic automorphism
- Towards massively parallel computations in algebraic geometry
- Bimeromorphic automorphism groups of certain \(\mathbb{P}^1\)-bundles
- Mocking the u-plane integral
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