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Grothendieck's Classification of Line Bundles over the Riemann Sphere

Algebraic Geometry 2020-10-01 v1

Abstract

In this paper we look at Grothendieck's work on classifying holomorphic bundles over the complex projective line. The paper is divided into 44 parts. The first and second part we build up the necessary background to talk about vector bundles, sheaves, cohomology, etc. The main result of the 3rd3^{rd} chapter is the classification of holomorphic vector bundles over the complex projective line. In the 4th4^{th} chapter we introduce principal GG-bundles and some of the theory behind them and finish off by proving Grothendieck's theorem in full generality. The goal is a (mostly) self-contained proof of Grothendieck's result accessible to someone who has taken differential geometry.

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@article{arxiv.2009.14345,
  title  = {Grothendieck's Classification of Line Bundles over the Riemann Sphere},
  author = {Andean E. Medjedovic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.14345},
  year   = {2020}
}

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Expository