# Appendix: Preliminary Notions To define - Sheaves - Coherent sheaves - Complete variety - Homogeneous variety - Algebraic group - Morphisms of algebraic groups - Reductive group - Borel - Parabolic - Equivariant - $\B G$ - Some examples? $\CP^\infty, \B \GL_n(\RR)$, etc. - \(\K\dash\)theory of an abelian category. - Segre embedding - Weyl group - Modular representation - Polar variety - Chern class - Borel-Moore homology - Relative homology - Ind-varieties and Ind-schemes