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What is the Genus?

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The ingredients appearing in Serre’s letter to Borel and which were very recent at that time are: complex fibrations and their Chern classes, sheafs of holomorphic sections and their cohomology groups. I will briefly explain the meaning of these notions and relate them to the objects discussed up to now.

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    He was a son of Elie Cartan.

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    Patrick Popescu-Pampu

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Popescu-Pampu, P. (2016). New Ingredients. In: What is the Genus?. Lecture Notes in Mathematics(), vol 2162. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42312-8_45

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