Topological Methods in Algebraic Geometry - Friedrich Hirzebruch - Hardcover - Reprint of the 1978 Edition

Introduction Chapter 1: Preparatory material 1. Multiplicative sequences 2. Sheaves 3. Fibre bundles 4. Characteristic classes Chapter 2: The cobordism ring 5. Pontrjagin numbers 6. The ring /Ãÿ(/Omega) /oplus //Varrho 7. The cobordism ring /omega 8. The index of a 4k-dimensional manifold 9. The virtual index Chapter 3: The Todd genus 10. Definiton of the Todd genus 11. The virutal generalised Todd genus 12. The t-characteristic of a GL(q, C)-bundle 13. Split manifolds and splitting methods 14. Multiplicative properties of the Todd genus Chapter 4: The Riemann-Roch theorem for algebraic manifolds 15. Cohomology of Compact complex manifolds 16. Further properties of the (/chi)x characteristics 17. The virtual (/chi)x characteristics 18. Some fundamental theorems of Kodaira 19. The virtual (/chi)x characteristics for algebraic manifolds 20. The Riemann-Roch theorem for algebraic manifolds and complex analytic line bundles 21. The Riemann-Roch theorem for algebraic manifolds and complex analytic vector bundles Appendix 1 by R.L.E. Schwarzenberger 22. Applications of the Riemann-Roch theorem 23. The Riemann-Roch theorem of Grothendieck 24. The Grothendieck ring of continuous vector bundles 25. The Atijah-Singer index theorem 26. Integrality theorems for differentiable manifolds Appendix 2 by A. Borel A spectral sequence for complex analytic bundles Bibliography IndexHirzebruch, Friedrich is the author of 'Topological Methods in Algebraic Geometry - Friedrich Hirzebruch - Hardcover - Reprint of the 1978 Edition' with ISBN 9783540586630 and ISBN 3540586636.