Polynomial convexity /

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Author / Creator:Stout, Edgar Lee, 1938-
Imprint:Boston, Mass. : Birkhàˆuser, 2007.
Description:x, 439 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Progress in mathematics ; v. 261
Progress in mathematics (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 261.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6435304
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ISBN:9780817645373 (hbk.)
0817645373 (hbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [415]-429) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Polynomial convexity
  • Uniform algebras
  • Plurisubharmonic fuctions
  • The Cauchy-Fantappie Integral
  • The Oka'Weil Theorem
  • Some examples
  • Hulls with no analytic structure
  • Some General Properties of Polynomially Convex Sets
  • Applications of the Cousin problems
  • Two characterizations of polynomially convex sets
  • Applications of Morse theory and algebraic topology
  • Convexity in Stein manifolds
  • Sets of Finite Length
  • Introduction
  • One-dimensional varieties
  • Geometric preliminaries
  • Function-theoretic preliminaries
  • Subharmonicity results
  • Analytic structure in hulls
  • Finite area
  • The continuation of varieties
  • Sets of Class A1. Introductory remarks
  • Measure-theoretic preliminaries
  • Sets of class A1. Finite area
  • Stokes's Theorem
  • The multiplicity function
  • Counting the branches
  • Further Results
  • Isoperimetry
  • Removable singularities
  • Surfaces in strictly pseudoconvex boundaries
  • Approximation
  • Totally real manifolds
  • Holomorphically convex sets
  • Approximation on totally real manifolds
  • Some tools from rational approximation
  • Algebras on surfaces
  • Tangential approximation
  • Varieties in Strictly Pseudoconvex Domains
  • Interpolation
  • Boundary regularity
  • Uniqueness
  • Examples and Counter Examples
  • Unions of planes and balls
  • Pluripolar graphs
  • Deformations
  • Sets with symmetry
  • Bibliography
  • Index