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Rationality of quotients by linear actions of affine groups

Algebraic Geometry 2011-03-08 v2

Abstract

Let G be the (special) affine group, semidirect product of SL_n and C^n. In this paper we study the representation theory of G and in particular the question of rationality for V/G where V is a generically free G-representation. We show that the answer to this question is positive if the dimension of V is sufficiently large and V is indecomposable. We have a more precise theorem if V is a two-step extension 0 -> S -> V -> Q -> 0 with S, Q completely reducible.

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@article{arxiv.1005.2375,
  title  = {Rationality of quotients by linear actions of affine groups},
  author = {Fedor Bogomolov and Christian Böhning and Hans-Christian Graf von Bothmer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1005.2375},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

18 pages; dedicated to Fabrizio Catanese on the occasion of his 60th birthday