English

An epimorphic subgroup arising from Roberts' counterexample

Algebraic Geometry 2012-01-26 v2

Abstract

In 1994, based on Roberts' counterexample to Hilbert's fourteenth problem, A'Campo-Neuen constructed an example of a linear action of a 12-dimensional commutative unipotent group H_0 on a 19-dimensional vector space V such that the algebra of invariants k[V]^{H_0} is not finitely generated. We consider a certain extension H of H_0 by a one-dimensional torus and prove that H is epimorphic in SL(V). In particular, the homogeneous space SL(V)/H provides a new example of a homogeneous space with epimorphic stabilizer that admits no projective embeddings with small boundary.

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@article{arxiv.1102.3543,
  title  = {An epimorphic subgroup arising from Roberts' counterexample},
  author = {Roman Avdeev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.3543},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

v2: 9 pages, small corrections

R2 v1 2026-06-21T17:27:47.804Z