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Compositions of birational endomorphisms of the affine plane

Algebraic Geometry 2016-01-20 v2

Abstract

Let A^2 denote the affine plane over an algebraically closed field of arbitrary characteristic. Besides contributing several new results in the general theory of birational endomorphisms of A^2, this article describes certain classes of birational endomorphisms f defined by requiring that the missing curves or contracting curves of f are lines. The last part of the article is concerned with the monoid structure of the set of birational endomorphisms of A^2.

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@article{arxiv.1307.3977,
  title  = {Compositions of birational endomorphisms of the affine plane},
  author = {Pierrette Cassou-Noguès and Daniel Daigle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.3977},
  year   = {2016}
}

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37 pages. Typos corrected, 3.16 improved, one reference added