Degeneration of Abelian Varieties

This book is concerned with the theory of degenerations of abelian varieties and its applications, and provides a new approach to Siegel modular forms. Faltings is a Fields Medal winner.

Contenu
I. Preliminaries.- II. Degeneration of Polarized Abelian Varieties.- III. Mumford's Construction.- IV. Toroidal Compactification of Ag.- V. Modular Forms and the Minimal Compactification.- VI. Eichler Integrals in Several Variables.- VII. Hecke Operators and Frobenii.- Glossary of Notations.- An Analytic Construction of Degenerating Abelian Varieties over Complete Rings.- David Mumford.