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L\"uroth's theorem for fields of rational functions in infinitely many permuted variables

Algebraic Geometry 2025-11-20 v4 Representation Theory

Abstract

L\"uroth's theorem describes the dominant maps from rational curves over a field. In this note we study those dominant rational maps from cartesian powers XΨX^{\Psi} of geometrically irreducible varieties XX over a field kk for infinite sets Ψ\Psi that are equivariant with respect to all permutations of the factors XX. At least some of such maps arise as compositions h:XΨfΨYΨH\YΨh:X^{\Psi}\xrightarrow{f^{\Psi}}Y^{\Psi}\to H\backslash Y^{\Psi}, where XfYX\xrightarrow{f}Y is a dominant kk-map and HH is a group of birational automorphisms of YkY|k, acting diagonally on YΨY^{\Psi}. In characteristic 0, we show that this construction, when properly modified, gives all dominant equivariant maps from XΨX^{\Psi}, if dimX=1\dim X=1. For arbitrary XX, the results are only partial. Also, a somewhat similar problem of describing the equivariant integral schemes over XΨX^{\Psi} of finite type is touched very briefly.

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@article{arxiv.2408.04028,
  title  = {L\"uroth's theorem for fields of rational functions in infinitely many permuted variables},
  author = {M. Rovinsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.04028},
  year   = {2025}
}

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