An Introduction to Galois Cohomology and its Applications

by Grégory Berhuy

Book Overview

This book is the first elementary introduction to Galois cohomology and its applications. The first part is self contained and provides the basic results of the theory, including a detailed construction of the Galois cohomology functor, as well as an exposition of the general theory of Galois descent. The whole theory is motivated and illustrated using the example of the descent problem of conjugacy classes of matrices. The second part of the book...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521738660
• ISBN13: 9780521738668
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"