List of Contributors

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. Preface V
3. Table of Contents VII
4. Moduli spaces Mg,n(W) for surfaces 1
5. On the geometry and Brill-Noether theory of spanned vector bundles on curves 23
6. On Calabi-Yau complete intersections in toric varieties 39
7. Asymptotic results for hermitian line bundles over complex manifolds: the heat kernel approach 67
8. Effective bounds for Nori's connectivity theorem 83
9. Kodaira dimension and fundamental group of compact Kähler manifolds 89
10. Fundamental groups with few relations 163
11. Some remarks on the obstructedness of cones over curves of low genus 167
12. Zero-estimates, intersection theory, and a theorem of Demailly 183
13. Limits of joins and intersections 209
14. The McKay correspondence for finite subgroups of SL (3, C) 221
15. Divisorial contractions to 3-dimensional terminal quotient singularities 241
16. Ample vector bundle characterizations of projective bundles and quadric fibrations over curves 247
17. The Diagram Method for 3-folds and its application to the Kähler cone and Picard number of Calabi-Yau 3-folds. I 261
18. On the complete classification of Calabi-Yau threefolds of type III0 329
19. On Halphen's speciality theorem 341
20. Threefolds with extremal Chern classes 357
21. List of Contributors 379