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The Jordan property of Cremona groups and essential dimension. (English) Zbl 1477.14024

Summary: We use a recent advance in birational geometry to prove new lower bounds on the essential dimension of some finite groups.

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14E07 Birational automorphisms, Cremona group and generalizations
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