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The book covers topics in the theory of algebraic transformation groups and algebraic varieties which are very much at the frontier of mathematical research.

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Author:   Vladimir Leonidovich Popov
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2004
Volume:   132
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9783642058752

ISBN 10:   3642058752
Pages:   238
Publication Date:   01 December 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Factoriality Of Certain Hypersurfaces Of P4 With Ordinary Double Points.- Boundedness For Low Codimensional Subvarieties.- Normality and Non Normality Of Certain Semigroups and Orbit Closures.- Deformation Rigidity Of the 20-dimensional F4-homogeneous Space Associated To a Short Root.- Severi-Brauer Varieties and Symmetric Powers.- Representation Theory and Projective Geometry.- Geometric Realization Of T-shaped Root Systems and Counterexamples To Hilbert’s Fourteenth Problem.- Self-dual Projective Algebraic Varieties Associated With Symmetric Spaces.- The Role Of Exotic Affine Spaces In the Classification Of Homogeneous Affine Varieties.- Hermitian Characteristics Of Nilpotent Elements.- Determinants Of Projective Varieties and Their Degrees.

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... This book gives a good flavour of some current research in algebraic transofrmation groups and their applications. ... B.Martin, Newsletter of the New Zealand Mathematical Society, No. 93, April 2005

... This book gives a good flavour of some current research in algebraic transofrmation groups and their applications. ... B.Martin, Newsletter of the New Zealand Mathematical Society, No. 93, April 2005

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