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Cancellation for surfaces revisited. II

Algebraic Geometry 2018-04-06 v2

Abstract

Let XX and XX' be affine algebraic varieties over a field k\mathbb{k}. The celebrated Zariski Cancellation Problem asks as to when the existence of an isomorphism X×AnX×AnX\times\mathbb{A}^n\cong X'\times\mathbb{A}^n implies XXX\cong X'. In Part I of this paper (arXiv:1610.01805) we provided a criterion for cancellation in the case where XX is a normal affine surface admitting an A1\mathbb{A}^1-fibration XBX\to B over a smooth affine curve BB. If XX does not admit such an A1\mathbb{A}^1-fibration then the cancellation by the affine line is known to hold for XX by a result of Bandman and Makar-Limanov. In the present Part II we classify all pairs (X,X)(X,X') of smooth affine surfaces A1\mathbb{A}^1-fibered over BB with only reduced fibers whose cylinders X×A1X\times\mathbb{A}^1, X×A1X'\times\mathbb{A}^1 are isomorphic over BB. Our criterion of isomorphism of cylinders over BB is expressed in terms of linear equivalence of certain divisors on the Danielewski-Fieseler quotient of XX over BB. Under a mild restriction we construct a coarse moduli of such surfaces.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1801.02274,
  title  = {Cancellation for surfaces revisited. II},
  author = {Hubert Flenner and Shulim Kaliman and Mikhail Zaidenberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.02274},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

33 pages; a proof of the existence of a coarse moduli space added in Section 7

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