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Algebraic K-Theory /

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Algebraic K-Theory has become an increasingly active area of research. With its connections to algebra, algebraic geometry, topology, and number theory, it has implications for a wide variety of researchers and graduate students in mathematics. The book is based on lectures given at the author'...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Srinivas, V.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA : Birkhäuser Boston, 1994.
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Mathematics.
Geometry, Algebraic.
K-theory.
Topology.
Algebraic topology.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Preface to the First Edition
  • Preface to the Second Edition
  • "Classical" K-Theory
  • The Plus Construction
  • The Classifying Space of a Small Category
  • Exact Categories and Quillen's Q-Construction
  • The K-Theory of Rings and Schemes
  • Proofs of the Theorems of Chapter 4
  • Comparison of the Plus and Q-Constructions
  • The Merkurjev--Suslin Theorem
  • Localization for Singular Varieties
  • Appendix A. Results from Topology
  • Appendix B. Results from Category Theory
  • Appendix C. Exact Couples
  • Appendix D. Results from Algebraic Geometry
  • Bibliography.