A gem of the modular universe

dc.creatorHunt, Bruce
dc.date1995-03-27
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T09:06:25Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T09:06:25Z
dc.descriptionWe introduce one of the most beautiful algebraic varieties known, a quintic hypersurface in projective five-space, which is invariant under the action of the Weyl group of $E_6$. This variety is intricately related with many other moduli problems, some of which are: marked hyperelliptic curves of genus two, Picard curves of genus four with a $\sqrt{-3}$-level structure, six points on the projective line, abelian surfaces with (1,3) polarisations, quartic surfaces invariant under the action of the Heisenberg group in projective three-space, K3-surfaces which are double covers of the projective plane branched along six lines, and last but not least, cubic surfaces in projective three-space. These relationships are developed in some detail, with particular care on the birational aspects.
dc.descriptionLaTeX 2.09
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/alg-geom/9503018
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/alg-geom/9503018
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/149999
dc.subjectAlgebraic Geometry
dc.subject14J30
dc.titleA gem of the modular universe
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