Lefschetz Properties in Algebra, Geometry and Combinatorics: Notes for the preparatory school

Juan C. Migliore; Giuseppe Favacchio

doi:10.2478/aupcsm-2025-0002

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Lefschetz Properties in Algebra, Geometry and Combinatorics: Notes for the preparatory school

Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Mathematica

Volume 24 (2025): Issue 1 (September 2025)

By: Juan C. Migliore and Giuseppe Favacchio

Open Access

|Jul 2025

Abstract

These notes represent background and supplementary material for our course in the Preparatory School for the conference “Lefschetz Properties in Algebra, Geometry and Combinatorics.” The school was held in Kraków in May, 2024 and the conference took place in June, 2024.

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