AuthorHunt, Bruce. author
TitleThe Geometry of some special Arithmetic Quotients [electronic resource] / by Bruce Hunt
ImprintBerlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1996
Connect tohttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BFb0094399
Descript CCCLII, 338 p. online resource

SUMMARY

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


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


SUBJECT

  1. Mathematics
  2. Algebraic geometry
  3. Topological groups
  4. Lie groups
  5. Mathematical analysis
  6. Analysis (Mathematics)
  7. Differential geometry
  8. Number theory
  9. Mathematics
  10. Algebraic Geometry
  11. Differential Geometry
  12. Number Theory
  13. Topological Groups
  14. Lie Groups
  15. Analysis