Cremona groups and the icosahedron /

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...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Cheltsov, Ivan (Author)
Corporate Author:	Taylor & Francis
Other Authors:	Shramov, Constantin
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Boca Raton : Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2015.
Series:	Monographs and research notes in mathematics.
Subjects:	Cremona transformations. Icosahedra. Transformations de Cremona. Icosaèdres. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book