
The Geometry of some special Arithmetic Quotients
Bruce Hunt(Author)
Springer (Publisher)
Published on 18. November 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
CCCLII, 338 pages
978-3-540-61795-2 (ISBN)
Description
The book discusses a series of higher-dimensional moduli spaces, of abelian varieties, cubic and K3 surfaces, which have embeddings in projective spaces as very special algebraic varieties. Many of these were known classically, but in the last chapter a new such variety, a quintic fourfold, is introduced and studied. The text will be of interest to all involved in the study of moduli spaces with symmetries, and contains in addition a wealth of material which has been only accessible in very old sources, including a detailed presentation of the solution of the equation of 27th degree for the lines on a cubic surface.
More details
Series
Edition
1996 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
CCCLII, 338 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
534 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-540-61795-2 (9783540617952)
DOI
10.1007/BFb0094399
Schweitzer Classification
Content
Moduli spaces of PEL structures.- Arithmetic quotients.- Projective embeddings of modular varieties.- The 27 lines on a cubic surface.- The Burkhardt quartic.- A gem of the modular universe.