Böcker av Dominic Joyce

Brings together three approaches to constructing the "virtual" fundamental cycle for the moduli space of pseudo-holomorphic curves. All approaches are based on the idea of local Kuranishi charts for the moduli space. The book offers a comprehensive understanding of the details of these constructions and the assumptions under which they can be made.

Explains the foundations of a version of algebraic geometry in which rings or algebras are replaced by $C^\infty $-rings. As schemes are the basic objects in algebraic geometry, the new basic objects are $C^\infty $-schemes, a category of geometric objects which generalize manifolds and whose morphisms generalize smooth maps.

Proofs or sketches are given for many important results.From the reviews:"An excellent introduction to current research in the geometry of Calabi-Yau manifolds, hyper-Kahler manifolds, exceptional holonomy and mirror symmetry....This is an excellent and useful book."