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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