Prev Next About BIRS The Creation of BIRS ... Workshop Files Derived Category Methods in Commutative Algebra II (10rit158) Arriving Sunday, October 31 and departing Sunday November 7, 2010 Organizers Henrik Holm (University of Copenhagen) Hans-Bjorn Foxby (University of Copenhagen) Lars Christensen (Texas Tech University) Objectives The book offers a systematic development of hyperhomological algebra. This includes the construction of the derived category of a general (associative) ring and a careful study of the functors of importance in ring theory. To demonstrate the strength and utility of the theory, and to motivate the choice of topics, the book includes an extensive course in central homological aspects of commutative ring theory. This part includes many recent results, which were discovered by means of derived category methods, and gives valuable new insight into the theory of commutative rings and their modules. Objective Authors Apart from the need for such a book, our motivation for actually writing it has two sources. It stems from repeated urgings from colleagues and from personal desires to see a presentation of the theory that not only makes the case for derived category methods but also provides a comprehensive and coherent reference for the theory and its applications in commutative algebra. The applicants maintain active research programs in commutative algebra. These programs rely heavily on derived category methods - and more advanced techniques of differential graded algebra | |
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