Introduction to Abelian Varieties

by Vijaya Kumar Murty

1993 · American Mathematical Soc.

This book presents an elementary and self-contained approach to Abelian varieties, a subject that plays a central role in algebraic and analytic geometry, number theory, and complex analysis. The book is based on notes from a course given at Concordia University and would be useful for independent study or as a textbook for graduate courses in complex analysis, Riemann surfaces, number theory, or analytic geometry. Murty works mostly over the complex numbers, discussing the theorem of Abel-Jacobi and Lefschetz's theorem on projective embeddings. After presenting some examples, Murty touches on Abelian varieties over number fields, as well as the conjecture of Tate (Faltings's theorem) and its relation to Mordell's conjecture. References are provided to guide the reader in further study.

Non-Vanishing of L-Functions and Applications

by Maruti Ram Murty, Vijaya Kumar Murty

1997 · Springer Science & Business Media

Discussion of results on the nonvanishing of L-functions is largely based on the various mathematicians' original papers. The authors place special emphasis on L-functions of Dirichlet and Artin, and those that are attached to modular forms. They address theorems on nonvanishing that have immediate applications to general questions concerning equidistribution. They do not consider the Galois theoretic and the automorphic method. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR