Codimension 2
From Mathematics
(→Introduction) |
(→Introduction) |
||
| Line 13: | Line 13: | ||
In the end of the 70's a beautiful story began, when mathematicians, with Bloch leading the way, began to discover a | In the end of the 70's a beautiful story began, when mathematicians, with Bloch leading the way, began to discover a | ||
| − | beautiful connection between algebraic K-Theory, algebraic cycles and | + | beautiful connection between algebraic K-Theory, algebraic cycles and polylogarithms. The first work was restricted to the |
case of codimension 2 cycles, K_2, and the Dilogarithm (this next polylogarithm after the usual logarithm) and quite explicit. | case of codimension 2 cycles, K_2, and the Dilogarithm (this next polylogarithm after the usual logarithm) and quite explicit. | ||
This story later triggered an enormous amount of research and was the motivation for many modern developments and conjectures, as for example | This story later triggered an enormous amount of research and was the motivation for many modern developments and conjectures, as for example | ||
