Complete Intersections [electronic resource] : Lectures given at the 1st 1983 Session of the Centro Internationale Matematico Estivo (C.I.M.E.) held at Acireale (Catania), Italy, June 13–21, 1983 / edited by Silvio Greco, Rosario Strano.

Complete intersections in affine algebraic varieties and Stein spaces -- Some applications of the theory of positive vector bundles -- Factorial and almost factorial schemes in weighted projective spaces -- On set-theoretic complete intersections -- The classification of quotient singularities which are complete intersections -- Compressed algebras -- Some properties of subcanonical curves -- About the conormal scheme -- On the uniqueness of certain linear series on some classes of curves -- On the local cohomology modules for ideals generated by monomials in an R-sequence -- In characteristic p=2 the Veronese variety Vm ? ?m(m+3)/2 and each of its generic projection is set-theoretic complete intersection -- Idéaux de définition des courbes monomiales -- Curves on rational and elliptic normal cones which are set theoretically complete intersection -- Complete intersections in ?2: Cayley-Bacharach characterizations -- Poincaré forms, Gorenstein algebras and set theoretic complete intersections.