Related papers: The Cremona group and its subgroups

This paper is a survey on the {\em Zimmer program}. In it's broadest form, this program seeks an understanding of actions of large groups on compact manifolds. The goals of this survey are $(1)$ to put in context the original questions and…

We present a history of the Baum-Connes conjecture, the methods involved, the current status, and the mathematics it generated.

We deal with the following question of Dolgachev : is the Cremona group generated by involutions ? Answer is yes in dimension $2$ (Cerveau-Deserti). We give an upper bound of the minimal number $\mathfrak{n}_\varphi$ of involutions we need…

This article focuses on the study of cut groups, i.e., the groups which have only trivial central units in their integral group ring. We provide state of art for cut groups. The results are compiled in a systematic manner and have also been…

We show that if a group automorphism of a Cremona group of arbitrary rank is also a homeomorphism with respect to either the Zariski or the Euclidean topology, then it is inner up to a field automorphism of the base-field. Moreover, we show…

We give a new characterization of partial groups as a subcategory of symmetric (simplicial) sets. This subcategory has an explicit reflection, which permits one to compute colimits in the category of partial groups. We also introduce the…

This is a survey paper based on my talk at the Workshop on Orbifolds and String Theory, the goal of which was to explain the role of groupoids and their classifying spaces as a foundation for the theory of orbifolds.

This report assumes the basics of inverse semigroup theory as described in the first primer but goes on to show how they may be analysed using ideas from category theory.

We investigate connections between local tameness of a group and a number of its ends.

We propose some problems on the classification of toric manifolds from the viewpoint of topology and survey related results.

This is a survey on appearances of reflection groups, real and complex, in algebraic geometry. We also include a brief introduction into the theory of reflection groups.

We survey the results regarding semi-extraspecial $p$-groups. Semi-extraspecial groups can be viewed as generalizations of extraspecial groups. We present the connections between semi-extraspecial groups and Camina groups and VZ-groups, and…

We survey the analogy between Kleinian groups and subgroups of the mapping class group of a surface.

This survey contains the introduction to the subject. Many new results are also included.

We survey what is known about various special types of submanifolds of contact manifolds and discuss their role in the development of contact geometry.

We give the classification of the maximal infinite algebraic subgroups of the real Cremona group of the plane up to conjugacy and present a parametrisation space of each conjugacy class. Moreover, we show that the real plane Cremona group…

Survey article on the geometry of spherical varieties. Invited survey for Transformation Groups.

We present an accessible introduction to basic results on groups of intermediate growth.

Let Cr(k) be the Cremona group of rank 2 over a field k, i.e. the group of all k-automorphisms of k(X,Y). We determine the l.c.m. of the orders of the finite subgroups of Cr(k) of order prime to the characteristic of k.

We investigate the concept of dominion (in the sense of Isbell) in several varieties of nilpotent groups. We obtain a full description of dominions in the variety of nilpotent groups of class at most two. Then we look at the behavior of…