Download or read book Algebraic Cobordism written by Marc Levine and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-02-23 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following Quillen's approach to complex cobordism, the authors introduce the notion of oriented cohomology theory on the category of smooth varieties over a fixed field. They prove the existence of a universal such theory (in characteristic 0) called Algebraic Cobordism. The book also contains some examples of computations and applications.