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Birational automorphisms of three-dimensional algebraic varieties

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The survey is devoted to the birational theory of three-dimensional algebraic Fano varieties.

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Translated from Itogi Nauki i Tekhniki, Sovremennye Problemy Matematiki, Vol. 12, pp. 159–236, 1979.

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Iskovskikh, V.A. Birational automorphisms of three-dimensional algebraic varieties. J Math Sci 13, 815–868 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01084564

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