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Birational self-maps of threefolds of (un)-bounded genus or gonality

Algebraic Geometry 2021-02-03 v2

Abstract

We study the complexity of birational self-maps of a projective threefold XX by looking at the birational type of surfaces contracted. These surfaces are birational to the product of the projective line with a smooth projective curve. We prove that the genus of the curves occuring is unbounded if and only if XX is birational to a conic bundle or a fibration into cubic surfaces. Similarly, we prove that the gonality of the curves is unbounded if and only if XX is birational to a conic bundle.

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@article{arxiv.1905.00940,
  title  = {Birational self-maps of threefolds of (un)-bounded genus or gonality},
  author = {Jérémy Blanc and Ivan Cheltsov and Alexander Duncan and Yuri Prokhorov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.00940},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

23 pages, some appendix added