"This detailed introduction to cubic hypersurfaces and all the techniques needed to study them leads the reader from classical topics to recent developments studying four-dimensional cubic hypersurfaces. With exercises and careful references to the wider literature, this is an ideal text for graduate students and researchers in algebraic geometry"--
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Basic facts; 2. Fano varieties of lines; 3. Moduli spaces; 4. Cubic surfaces; 5. Cubic threefolds; 6. Cubic fourfolds; 7. Derived categories of cubic hypersurfaces; References; Subject index.
