Room P3.10, Mathematics Building

Rita Pardini, University of Pisa

Abelian covers of algebraic varieties

AIM:
The purpose of this course is to introduce a technique that has proven useful, especially in the theory of algebraic surfaces, to construct interesting varieties and families of varieties and to test general conjectures.
CONTENTS:
Double covers. Finite group actions on complex manifolds, quotient singularities. Structure theorem for abelian covers. Natural deformations of abelian covers. Applications and examples.