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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 June 2025

Michael Schneider
Affiliation:
Universität Bayreuth, Germany
Yum-Tong Siu
Affiliation:
Harvard University, Massachusetts
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This volume consists of sixteen articles written by participants of the 1995-96 Special Year in Several Complex Variables held at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, California.

The field of Several Complex Variables is a central area of mathematics with strong interactions with partial differential equations, algebraic geometry and differential geometry. The 1995-96 MSRI program on Several Complex Variables emphasized these interactions and concentrated on developments and problems of current interest that capitalize on this interplay of ideas and techniques.

This collection provides a picture of the status of research in these overlapping areas at the time of the conference, with some updates. It will serve as a basis for continued contributions from researchers and as an introduction for students. Most of the articles are surveys or expositions of results and techniques from these overlapping areas in several complex variables, often summarizing a vast amount of literature from a unified point of view. A few articles are more oriented toward researchers but nonetheless have expository sections.

On August 29, 1997 Michael Schneider, one of the two editors of this volume, died in a rock-climbing accident in the French Alps. This volume is dedicated to his memory. The front matter includes his portrait, a listing of the major events in his mathematical career, and a selection of his mathematical contributions.

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Print publication year: 2000

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