Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. Foundational Material. 1.1. Basic Sheaf Theory. 1.2. Sheaf Cohomology. 1.3. Cech Cohomology with Coefficients in a Sheaf. 1.4. Divisors and the Riemann-Roch Theorem. 1.4. Weierstrass Points. 1.5. The Jacobian Variety
  • Ch. 2. Analytic and Algebraic Families. 2.1. Families and Parameter Spaces. 2.2. Algebraic Families. 2.3. The Hilbert Polynomial
  • Ch. 3. Meromorphic Functions. 3.1. Meromorphic Functions of Higher Degree. 3.2. Families of Meromorphic Functions. 3.3. Base-Point-Free Linear Series. 3.4. Canonical Curves and Quadrics. 3.5. Associated Curves
  • Ch. 4. Brill-Noether Theory. 4.1. Determinantal Varieties. 4.2. More Sheaves and Vector Bundles. 4.3. The Brill-Noether Theorem