Finite Simple Groups of Small Essential Dimension

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-05254-0_16MaRDI QIDQ2948985zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Arnaud Beauville

Publication date 7 October 2015

Published in Trends in Contemporary Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.1372

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Birational automorphisms, Cremona group and generalizations (14E07) Group actions on varieties or schemes (quotients) (14L30) Simple groups: alternating groups and groups of Lie type (20D06)

Abstract: We discuss the notion of essential dimension of a finite group and explain its relation with birational algebraic geometry. We show how this leads to a (partial) classification of simple finite groups of essential dimension less than or equal to 3.

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