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.
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