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Cremona Groups and the Icosahedron, PDF eBook

Cremona Groups and the Icosahedron PDF

Part of the Chapman & Hall/CRC Monographs and Research Notes in Mathematics series

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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

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