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Thin monodromy in Sp(4)

Algebraic Geometry 2019-02-20 v1 Number Theory

Abstract

We show that some hypergeometric monodromy groups in Sp(4,Z) split as free or amalgamated products and hence by cohomological considerations give examples of Zariski dense, non-arithmetic monodromy groups of real rank 2. In particular, we show that the monodromy of the natural quotient of the Dwork family of quintic threefolds in P^{4} splits as Z*Z/5. As a consequence, for a smooth quintic threefold X we show that a certain group of autoequivalences of the bounded derived category of coherent sheaves is an Artin group of dihedral type.

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@article{arxiv.1210.0523,
  title  = {Thin monodromy in Sp(4)},
  author = {Christopher Brav and Hugh Thomas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.0523},
  year   = {2019}
}
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