scholarly journals Subgroups of elliptic elements of the Cremona group

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (770) ◽  
pp. 27-57
Author(s):  
Christian Urech

Abstract The Cremona group is the group of birational transformations of the complex projective plane. In this paper we classify its subgroups that consist only of elliptic elements using elementary model theory. This yields in particular a description of the structure of torsion subgroups. As an application, we prove the Tits alternative for arbitrary subgroups of the Cremona group, generalizing a result of Cantat. We also describe solvable subgroups of the Cremona group and their derived length, refining results from Déserti.

Author(s):  
Grzegorz Malara ◽  
Piotr Pokora ◽  
Halszka Tutaj-Gasińska

AbstractIn this note we study curves (arrangements) in the complex projective plane which can be considered as generalizations of free curves. We construct families of arrangements which are nearly free and possess interesting geometric properties. More generally, we study 3-syzygy curve arrangements and we present examples that admit unexpected curves.


Author(s):  
Loring W. Tu

This chapter focuses on spectral sequences. The spectral sequence is a powerful computational tool in the theory of fiber bundles. First introduced by Jean Leray in the 1940s, it was further refined by Jean-Louis Koszul, Henri Cartan, Jean-Pierre Serre, and many others. The chapter provides a short introduction, without proofs, to spectral sequences. As an example, it computes the cohomology of the complex projective plane. The chapter then details Leray's theorem. A spectral sequence is like a book with many pages. Each time one turns a page, one obtains a new page that is the cohomology of the previous page.


2020 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 997-1007
Author(s):  
Brendan Owens

Abstract We exhibit an infinite family of rational homology balls, which embed smoothly but not symplectically in the complex projective plane. We also obtain a new lattice embedding obstruction from Donaldson’s diagonalization theorem and use this to show that no two of our examples may be embedded disjointly.


1997 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Arleigh Crawford

AbstractIn this paper we study the topology of the space of harmonic maps from S2 to ℂℙ2.We prove that the subspaces consisting of maps of a fixed degree and energy are path connected. By a result of Guest and Ohnita it follows that the same is true for the space of harmonic maps to ℂℙn for n ≥ 2. We show that the components of maps to ℂℙ2 are complex manifolds.


Author(s):  
Serge Cantat ◽  
Vincent Guirardel ◽  
Anne Lonjou

Abstract Consider an algebraically closed field ${\textbf{k}}$, and let $\textsf{Cr}_2({\textbf{k}})$ be the Cremona group of all birational transformations of the projective plane over ${\textbf{k}}$. We characterize infinite order elements $g\in \textsf{Cr}_2({\textbf{k}})$ having a power $g^n$, $n\neq 0$, generating a proper normal subgroup of $\textsf{Cr}_2({\textbf{k}})$.


Author(s):  
Theocharis Theofanidis

Real hypersurfaces satisfying the conditionϕl=lϕ(l=R(·,ξ)ξ)have been studied by many authors under at least one more condition, since the class of these hypersurfaces is quite tough to be classified. The aim of the present paper is the classification of real hypersurfaces in complex projective planeCP2satisfying a generalization ofϕl=lϕunder an additional restriction on a specific function.


2013 ◽  
Vol 24 (02) ◽  
pp. 1350017
Author(s):  
A. MUHAMMED ULUDAĞ ◽  
CELAL CEM SARIOĞLU

We give a brief survey of the so-called Fenchel's problem for the projective plane, that is the problem of existence of finite Galois coverings of the complex projective plane branched along a given divisor and prove the following result: Let p, q be two integers greater than 1 and C be an irreducible plane curve. If there is a surjection of the fundamental group of the complement of C into a free product of cyclic groups of orders p and q, then there is a finite Galois covering of the projective plane branched along C with any given branching index.


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