The central topic of this research monograph is the relation between p-adic modular forms and p-adic Galois representations, and in particular the theory of deformations of Galois representations recently introduced by Mazur.
Locally semialgebraic spaces serve as an appropriateframework for studying the topological properties ofvarieties and semialgebraic sets over a real closed field.
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.