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Numerically trivial automorphisms of Enriques surfaces in characteristic $2$

Algebraic Geometry 2019-10-31 v2

Abstract

An automorphism of an algebraic surface SS is called cohomologically (numerically) trivial if it acts identically on the second ll-adic cohomology group (this group modulo torsion subgroup). Extending the results of S. Mukai and Y. Namikawa to arbitrary characteristic p>0p > 0, we prove that the group of cohomologically trivial automorphisms Autct(S)\rm{Aut}_{\rm{ct}}(S) of an Enriques surface SS is of order 2\leq 2 if SS is not supersingular. If p=2p = 2 and SS is supersingular, we show that Autct(S)\rm{Aut}_{\rm{ct}}(S) is a cyclic group of odd order n{1,2,3,5,7,11}n\in \{1,2,3,5,7,11\} or the quaternion group Q8Q_8 of order 88 and we describe explicitly all the exceptional cases. If KS0K_S \neq 0, we also prove that the group Autnt(S)\rm{Aut}_{\rm{nt}}(S) of numerically trivial automorphisms is a subgroup of a cyclic group of order 4\leq 4 unless p=2p = 2, where Autnt(S)\rm{Aut}_{\rm{nt}}(S) is a subgroup of a 22-elementary group of rank 2\leq 2.

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@article{arxiv.1709.00971,
  title  = {Numerically trivial automorphisms of Enriques surfaces in characteristic $2$},
  author = {Igor Dolgachev and Gebhard Martin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.00971},
  year   = {2019}
}

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