English

Topologically integrable derivations and additive group actions on affine ind-schemes

Commutative Algebra 2026-01-29 v2 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

We develop a theory of additive group actions on affine ind-schemes through a purely algebraic and topological framework. Affine ind-schemes are described via complete, second-countable, linearly topologized rings, and actions of the additive group are encoded by restricted exponential homomorphisms. We introduce the notion of a topologically integrable derivation, a continuous derivation whose formal exponential converges in the sense of restricted power series, and show that this notion provides the correct extension of locally nilpotent derivations to the infinite-dimensional setting. Our first main result establishes a one-to-one correspondence between topologically integrable derivations and additive group actions on affine ind-schemes, extending the classical correspondence for affine varieties. We then investigate the structure of such actions admitting a slice. In this context, we prove an ind-scheme analog of the classical slice theorem: if an additive group action admits a slice, then the underlying affine ind-scheme is equivariantly isomorphic to a product with the affine line, and the action is given by translation on the second factor. Several examples illustrate the necessity of the topological hypotheses and highlight phenomena absent in the finite-type case.

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@article{arxiv.2012.14302,
  title  = {Topologically integrable derivations and additive group actions on affine ind-schemes},
  author = {Roberto Diaz and Adrien Dubouloz and Alvaro Liendo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.14302},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

v2: Revised version with mathematical corrections and improved organization. Some material moved to appendix for better readability

R2 v1 2026-06-23T21:29:49.578Z