TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brunella,Marco
TI  - Birational geometry of foliations
T2  - IMPA monographs
SN  - 9783319143095
U1  - 514.72 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer
KW  - Foliations (Mathematics)
KW  - Geometry
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Local theory --
2. Foliations and line bundles --
3. Index theorems --
4. Some special foliations --
5. Minimal models --
6. Global 1-forms and Vector Fields --
7. The Rationality Criterion --
8. Numerical Kodaira Dimension --
9. Kodaira Dimension --
References --
Index
N2  - The text presents the birational classification of holomorphic foliations of surfaces.  It discusses at length the theory developed by L.G. Mendes, M. McQuillan and the author to study foliations of surfaces  in the spirit of the classification of complex algebraic surfaces

ER  -