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Blowing up non-commutative smooth surfaces

Quantum Algebra 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

In this paper we will think of certain abelian categories with favorable properties as non-commutative surfaces. We show that under certain conditions a point on a non-commutative surface can be blown up. This yields a new non-commutative surface which is in a certain sense birational to the original one. This construction is analogous to blowing up a Poisson surface in a point of the zero-divisor of the Poisson bracket. By blowing up 8\le 8 points in the elliptic quantum plane one obtains global non-commutative deformations of Del-Pezzo surfaces. For example blowing up six points yields a non-commutative cubic surface. Under a number of extra hypotheses we obtain a formula for the number of non-trivial simple objects on such non-commutative surfaces.

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@article{arxiv.math/9809116,
  title  = {Blowing up non-commutative smooth surfaces},
  author = {Michel Van den Bergh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/9809116},
  year   = {2007}
}