A Collection of Manuscripts Written in Honour of Alexander S. Merkurjev on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday
Editors
Paul Balmer
University of California, Los Angeles, USAVladimir Chernousov
University of Alberta, Edmonton, CanadaSkip Garibaldi
University of California, Los Angeles, USAIvan Fesenko
University of Nottingham, UKEric M. Friedlander
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USAUlf Rehmann
Universität Bielefeld, GermanyZinovy Reichstein
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
This volume is dedicated to Professor Alexander S. Merkurjev, one of the world’s leading algebraists, in recognition of his fundamental contributions to algebraic K-theory, quadratic forms, Galois cohomology, algebraic groups, essential dimension, aspects of arithmetic and algebraic geometry.
23 papers in the volume advance topics in local commutative algebra, homogeneous varieties, homology classes for varieties over finite fields, birational geometry, coordinates in polynomial rings over algebraically closed fields, hermitian lattices, bundles over surfaces, characteristic classes, semisimple groups, cohomological invariants, algebras with involution, algebraic K-theory, oriented cohomology of flag varieties, cycles on algebraic varieties, mixed motives, motivic stable homotopy, -adic arithmetic geometry, quadratic forms, algebraic groups, essential dimension theory.
The material will be of interest to researchers in these and neighboring fields.