Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics Volume 70: Arithmetic Fundamental Groups and Noncommutative Algebra

The 19 papers consider such topics as descent theory for algebraic covers, limits of Galois representations in fundamental groups along the maximal degeneration of marked curves, explicit formulae for l -adic polylogarithms, fundamental groups and geometry of curves in positive characteristic, configuration spaces for wildly ramified covers, prescribing ramification, de-singularization and modular Galois theory, Genus 0 actions of groups of Lie rank 1, semi-simple triangular Hopf algebras and Tannakian categories, and the Hodge-Arakelov theory of elliptic curves. They are not indexed. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)