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Discriminants, resultants and multidimensional determinants/

Gelfand, Israel M.

Discriminants, resultants and multidimensional determinants/ Israel M. Gelfand, Mikhail Kapranov and Andrei Zelevinsky - Boston: Birkhauser, 2008. - x, 523 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - (Modern Birkhauser classics) .

I : General discriminants and resultants --
Projective dual varieties and general discriminants --
The Cayley method for studying discriminants --
Associated varieties and general resultants --
Chow varieties --
II : A-discriminants and A-resultants --
Toric varieties --
Newton polytopes and chow polytopes --
Triangulations and secondary polytopes --
A-resultants and chow polytopes of toric varieties --
A-discriminants --
Principal A-determinants --
Regular A-determinants and A-discriminants --
III : Classical discriminants and resultants --
Discriminants and resultants for polynomials in one variable --
Discriminants and resultants for forms in several variables --
Hyperdeterminants.

ISBN: 9780817647704

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Determinants
Discriminant analysis
Algebra
Mathematics

Dewey Class. No.: 512.9432 / GEL/D