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Affine surfaces with a huge group of automorphisms

Algebraic Geometry 2013-02-18 v1

Abstract

We describe a family of rational affine surfaces S with huge groups of automorphisms in the following sense: the normal subgroup of Aut(S) generated by all its algebraic subgroups is not generated by any countable family of such subgroups, and the quotient of Aut(S) by this subgroup contains a free group over an uncountable set of generators.

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@article{arxiv.1302.3813,
  title  = {Affine surfaces with a huge group of automorphisms},
  author = {Jérémy Blanc and Adrien Dubouloz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.3813},
  year   = {2013}
}