Author	Bosch, Siegfried. author
Title	Nรฉron Models [electronic resource] / by Siegfried Bosch, Werner Lรผtkebohmert, Michel Raynaud
Imprint	Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1990
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-51438-8
Descript	X, 328 p. online resource

Nรฉron models were invented by A. Nรฉron in the early 1960s in order to study the integral structure of abelian varieties over number fields. Since then, arithmeticians and algebraic geometers have applied the theory of Nรฉron models with great success. Quite recently, new developments in arithmetic algebraic geometry have prompted a desire to understand more about Nรฉron models, and even to go back to the basics of their construction. The authors have taken this as their incentive to present a comprehensive treatment of Nรฉron models. This volume of the renowned "Ergebnisse" series provides a detailed demonstration of the construction of Nรฉron models from the point of view of Grothendieck's algebraic geometry. In the second part of the book the relationship between Nรฉron models and the relative Picard functor in the case of Jacobian varieties is explained. The authors helpfully remind the reader of some important standard techniques of algebraic geometry. A special chapter surveys the theory of the Picard functor

1. What Is a Nรฉron Model? -- 1.1 Integral Points -- 1.2 Nรฉron Models -- 1.3 The Local Case: Main Existence Theorem -- 1.4 The Global Case: Abelian Varieties -- 1.5 Elliptic Curves -- 1.6 Nรฉronโ{128}{153}s Original Article -- 2. Some Background Material from Algebraic Geometry -- 2.1 Differential Forms -- 2.2 Smoothness -- 2.3 Henselian Rings -- 2.4 Flatness -- 2.5 S-Rational Maps -- 3. The Smoothening Process -- 3.1 Statement of the Theorem -- 3.2 Dilatation -- 3.3 Nรฉronโ{128}{153}s Measure for the Defect of Smoothness -- 3.4 Proof of the Theorem -- 3.5 Weak Nรฉron Models -- 3.6 Algebraic Approximation of Formal Points -- 4. Construction of Birational Group Laws -- 4.1 Group Schemes -- 4.2 Invariant Differential Forms -- 4.3 R-Extensions of K-Group Laws -- 4.4 Rational Maps into Group Schemes -- 5. From Birational Group Laws to Group Schemes -- 5.1 Statement of the Theorem -- 5.2 Strict Birational Group Laws -- 5.3 Proof of the Theorem for a Strictly Henselian Base -- 6. Descent -- 6.1 The General Problem -- 6.2 Some Standard Examples of Descent -- 6.3 The Theorem of the Square -- 6.4 The Quasi-Projectivity of Torsors -- 6.5 The Descent of Torsors -- 6.6 Applications to Birational Group Laws -- 6.7 An Example of Non-Effective Descent -- 7. Properties of Nรฉron Models -- 7.1 A Criterion -- 7.2 Base Change and Descent -- 7.3 Isogenies -- 7.4 Semi-Abelian Reduction -- 7.5 Exactness Properties -- 7.6 Weil Restriction -- 8. The Picard Functor -- 8.1 Basics on the Relative Picard Functor -- 8.2 Representability by a Scheme -- 8.3 Representability by an Algebraic Space -- 8.4 Properties -- 9. Jacobians of Relative Curves -- 9.1 The Degree of Divisors -- 9.2 The Structure of Jacobians -- 9.3 Construction via Birational Group Laws -- 9.4 Construction via Algebraic Spaces -- 9.5 Picard Functor and Nรฉron Models of Jacobians -- 9.6 The Group of Connected Components of a Nรฉron Model -- 9.7 Rational Singularities -- 10. Nรฉron Models of Not Necessarily Proper Algebraic Groups -- 10.1 Generalities -- 10.2 The Local Case -- 10.3 The Global Case