nLab Ofer Gabber

Ofer Gabber is an Israeli-French mathematician (with thesis under Barry Mazur), famous for his technical excellence in a number of mathematical subjects, now a CNRS member working at IHES. Gabber has produced very many results from foundational results to counterexamples, mainly in algebraic geometry, arithmetic geometry, number theory, representation theory and algebra, only small part of which are published, and many are known only indirectly via works of other mathematicians who were acquainted with his results.

• German wikipedia entry

Selected writings

On almost ring theory

• Ofer Gabber, Lorenzo Ramero, Almost ring theory, Springer 2003 (arXiv:math/0002064, doi:10.1007/b10047)

and its foundations (including 2-category theory):

• Ofer Gabber, Lorenzo Ramero, Foundations for almost ring theory (arXiv:math/0409584)

On BGG resolution

• Ofer Gabber, Anthony Joseph, On the Bernstein-Gelfand-Gelfand resolution and the Duflo sum formula, Compositio Math. 43 (1981) 107–131 numdam

Related nLab entries

• BBDG decomposition theorem

• almost scheme

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