Cremona Groups and the Icosahedron
| Author | : Ivan Cheltsov |
| Publisher | : CRC Press |
| Total Pages | : 521 |
| Release | : 2015-08-21 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781482251609 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1482251604 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (604 Downloads) |
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
