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This paper presents an extended overview of the results obtained in the preceding years by the author and his collaborators in higher-dimensional Arakelov theory. The basic notion here is a hermitian vector bundle on a scheme (regular, projective, flat) over \({\mathbb Z}\). The author shows that many standard results of algebraic geometry can be extended to this setting, like Chern classes, Schubert calculus, Grothendieck groups, Riemann-Roch theorems and also ampleness, vanishing theorems and semi-stability. This is done in order to `compactify' arithmetic varieties at the infinite place. One expects that results on the cohomology, especially the module of sections \(H^0(X,E)\) have important arithmetic applications. The hard work in this field lies on the complex analytic side, but the main emphasis in this paper is on the analogy with the geometric case. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0882.00032].