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