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The aim of this paper is to convey some idea, by means of concrete examples, of what it means for a moduli space in algebraic geometry to be rational, and of what this question has to do with group theory.
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Shepherd-Barron, N.I. (1989). Rationality of Moduli Spaces via Invariant Theory. In: Kraft, H., Petrie, T., Schwarz, G.W. (eds) Topological Methods in Algebraic Transformation Groups. Progress in Mathematics, vol 80. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3702-0_10
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