Cremona Groups and the Icosahedron

Cremona Groups and the Icosahedron PDF Author: Ivan Cheltsov
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1482251604
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 521

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Book Description
Cremona Groups and the Icosahedron focuses on the Cremona groups of ranks 2 and 3 and describes the beautiful appearances of the icosahedral group A5 in them. The book surveys known facts about surfaces with an action of A5, explores A5-equivariant geometry of the quintic del Pezzo threefold V5, and gives a proof of its A5-birational rigidity.The a