The decomposition group of a line in the plane
Algebraic Geometry
2016-04-27 v2
Abstract
We show that the decomposition group of a line in the plane, i.e. the subgroup of plane birational transformations that send to itself birationally, is generated by its elements of degree 1 and one element of degree 2, and that it does not decompose as a non-trivial amalgamated product.
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@article{arxiv.1601.02725,
title = {The decomposition group of a line in the plane},
author = {Isac Hedén and Susanna Zimmermann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.02725},
year = {2016}
}
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15 pages, 7 figures