Compact Complex Surfaces

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XII

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2. Introduction

   • Wolf P. Barth, Klaus Hulek, Chris A. M. Peters, Antonius Van de Ven

   Pages 1-12

3. Preliminaries

   • Wolf P. Barth, Klaus Hulek, Chris A. M. Peters, Antonius Van de Ven

   Pages 13-59

4. Curves on Surfaces

   • Wolf P. Barth, Klaus Hulek, Chris A. M. Peters, Antonius Van de Ven

   Pages 61-87

5. Mappings of Surfaces

   • Wolf P. Barth, Klaus Hulek, Chris A. M. Peters, Antonius Van de Ven

   Pages 89-134

6. Some General Properties of Surfaces

   • Wolf P. Barth, Klaus Hulek, Chris A. M. Peters, Antonius Van de Ven

   Pages 135-184

7. Examples

   • Wolf P. Barth, Klaus Hulek, Chris A. M. Peters, Antonius Van de Ven

   Pages 185-242

8. The Enriques Kodaira Classification

   • Wolf P. Barth, Klaus Hulek, Chris A. M. Peters, Antonius Van de Ven

   Pages 243-267

9. Surfaces of General Type

   • Wolf P. Barth, Klaus Hulek, Chris A. M. Peters, Antonius Van de Ven

   Pages 269-301

10. K3-Surfaces and Enriques Surfaces

    • Wolf P. Barth, Klaus Hulek, Chris A. M. Peters, Antonius Van de Ven

    Pages 307-373

11. Topological and Differentiable Structure of Surfaces

    • Wolf P. Barth, Klaus Hulek, Chris A. M. Peters, Antonius Van de Ven

    Pages 375-399

12. Back Matter

    Pages 401-436

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In the 19 years which passed since the first edition was published, several important developments have taken place in the theory of surfaces. The most sensational one concerns the differentiable structure of surfaces. Twenty years ago very little was known about differentiable structures on 4-manifolds, but in the meantime Donaldson on the one hand and Seiberg and Witten on the other hand, have found, inspired by gauge theory, totally new invariants. Strikingly, together with the theory explained in this book these invariants yield a wealth of new results about the differentiable structure of algebraic surfaces. Other developments include the systematic use of nef-divisors (in ac­ cordance with the progress made in the classification of higher dimensional algebraic varieties), a better understanding of Kahler structures on surfaces, and Reider's new approach to adjoint mappings. All these developments have been incorporated in the present edition, though the Donaldson and Seiberg-Witten theory only by way of examples. Of course we use the opportunity to correct some minor mistakes, which we ether have discovered ourselves or which were communicated to us by careful readers to whom we are much obliged.

• Mathematisches Institut, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

  Wolf P. Barth

• Institut für Mathematik, Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany

  Klaus Hulek

• Institut Fourier, Université Grenoble I, St.-Martin d’Héres Cedex, France

  Chris A. M. Peters

• Mathematisch Instituut, Universiteit Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands

  Antonius Ven

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