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Rationality of fields of invariants for some representations of SL2 × SL2

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2013

Shouhei Ma*
Affiliation:
Graduate School of Mathematics, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan email ma@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Abstract

We prove that the quotient by ${\mathrm{SL} }_{2} \times {\mathrm{SL} }_{2} $ of the space of bidegree $(a, b)$ curves on ${ \mathbb{P} }^{1} \times { \mathbb{P} }^{1} $ is rational when $ab$ is even and $a\not = b$.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2013 

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