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Polarized endomorphisms of normal projective threefolds in arbitrary characteristic

Algebraic Geometry 2021-10-22 v3 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

Let XX be a projective variety over an algebraically closed field kk of arbitrary characteristic p0p \ge 0. A surjective endomorphism ff of XX is qq-polarized if fHqHf^\ast H \sim qH for some ample Cartier divisor HH and integer q>1q > 1. Suppose ff is separable and XX is Q\mathbb{Q}-Gorenstein and normal. We show that the anti-canonical divisor KX-K_X is numerically equivalent to an effective Q\mathbb{Q}-Cartier divisor, strengthening slightly the conclusion of Boucksom, de Fernex and Favre (Theorem C) and also covering singular varieties over an algebraically closed field of arbitrary characteristic. Suppose ff is separable and XX is normal. We show that the Albanese morphism of XX is an algebraic fibre space and ff induces polarized endomorphisms on the Albanese and also the Picard variety of XX, and KXK_X being pseudo-effective and Q\mathbb{Q}-Cartier means being a torsion Q\mathbb{Q}-divisor. Let fGal:XXf^{Gal}:\overline{X}\to X be the Galois closure of ff. We show that if p>5p>5 and co-prime to degfGaldeg\, f^{Gal} then one can run the minimal model program (MMP) ff-equivariantly, after replacing ff by a positive power, for a mildly singular threefold XX and reach a variety YY with torsion canonical divisor (and also with YY being a quasi-\'etale quotient of an abelian variety when dim(Y)2\dim(Y)\le 2). Along the way, we show that a power of ff acts as a scalar multiplication on the Neron-Severi group of XX (modulo torsion) when XX is a smooth and rationally chain connected projective variety of dimension at most three.

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@article{arxiv.1710.01903,
  title  = {Polarized endomorphisms of normal projective threefolds in arbitrary characteristic},
  author = {Paolo Cascini and Sheng Meng and De-Qi Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.01903},
  year   = {2021}
}

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Minor revision, 33 pages, Mathematische Annalen (to appear)

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