Author : Ivan Cheltsov
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1482251604
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Cremona Groups and the Icosahedron by : Ivan Cheltsov
Download or read book Cremona Groups and the Icosahedron written by Ivan Cheltsov and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-08-21 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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