Geometry Of The Plane Cremona Maps

Download or read book Geometry of the Plane Cremona Maps written by Maria Alberich-Carraminana and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2002 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a self-contained exposition of the theory of plane Cremona maps, reviewing the classical theory. The book updates, correctly proves and generalises a number of classical results by allowing any configuration of singularities for the base points of the plane Cremona maps. It also presents some material which has only appeared in research papers and includes new, previously unpublished results. This book will be useful as a reference text for any researcher who is interested in the topic of plane birational maps.