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Burkhardt quartic, Barth sextic, and the icosahedron

Algebraic Geometry 2020-08-13 v2

Abstract

We study two rational Fano threefolds with an action of the icosahedral group A5\mathfrak{A}_5. The first one is the famous Burkhardt quartic threefold, and the second one is the double cover of the projective space branched in the Barth sextic surface. We prove that both of them are A5\mathfrak{A}_5-Fano varieties that are A5\mathfrak{A}_5-birationally superrigid. This gives two new embeddings of the group A5\mathfrak{A}_5 into the space Cremona group.

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@article{arxiv.1606.04372,
  title  = {Burkhardt quartic, Barth sextic, and the icosahedron},
  author = {Ivan Cheltsov and Victor Przyjalkowski and Constantin Shramov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.04372},
  year   = {2020}
}

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14 pages

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