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Book SynopsisOn its original publication, this algebraic introduction to Grothendieck's local cohomology theory was the first book devoted solely to the topic and it has since become the standard reference for graduate students. This second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to incorporate recent developments in the field.
Trade ReviewReview of the first edition: '… Brodmann and Sharp have produced an excellent book: it is clearly, carefully and enthusiastically written; it covers all important aspects and main uses of the subject; and it gives a thorough and well-rounded appreciation of the topic's geometric and algebraic interrelationships … I am sure that this will be a standard text and reference book for years to come.' Liam O'Carroll, Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society
Review of the first edition: 'The book is well organised, very nicely written, and reads very well … a very good overview of local cohomology theory.' Newsletter of the European Mathematical Society
Review of the first edition: '… a careful and detailed algebraic introduction to Grothendieck's local cohomology theory.' L'Enseignement Mathematique
'… the book opens the view towards the beauty of local cohomology, not as an isolated subject but as a tool helpful in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry.' Zentralblatt MATH
'From the point of view of the reviewer (who learned all his basic knowledge about local cohomology reading the first edition of this book and doing some of its exercises), the changes previously described (the new Chapter 12 concerning canonical modules, the treatment of multigraded local cohomology, and the final new section of Chapter 20 about locally free sheaves) definitely make this second edition an even better graduate textbook than the first. Indeed, it is well written and, overall, almost self-contained, which is very important in a book addressed to graduate students.' Alberto F. Boix, Mathematical Reviews
Table of ContentsPreface to the First Edition; Preface to the Second Edition; Notation and conventions; 1. The local cohomology functors; 2. Torsion modules and ideal transforms; 3. The Mayer–Vietoris sequence; 4. Change of rings; 5. Other approaches; 6. Fundamental vanishing theorems; 7. Artinian local cohomology modules; 8. The Lichtenbaum–Hartshorne Theorem; 9. The Annihilator and Finiteness Theorems; 10. Matlis duality; 11. Local duality; 12. Canonical modules; 13. Foundations in the graded case; 14. Graded versions of basic theorems; 15. Links with projective varieties; 16. Castelnuovo regularity; 17. Hilbert polynomials; 18. Applications to reductions of ideals; 19. Connectivity in algebraic varieties; 20. Links with sheaf cohomology; Bibliography; Index.
