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Explicit Sarkisov program for regular surfaces over arbitrary fields and applications

Algebraic Geometry 2025-10-21 v3

Abstract

We prove the Sarkisov program for projective surfaces over excellent base rings, including the case of non-perfect base fields kk of characteristic p>0p>0. We classify the Sarkisov links between Mori fibre spaces and their relations for regular surfaces, generalising work of Iskovskikh. As an application, we discuss rationality problems for regular surfaces and the structure of the plane Cremona group.

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@article{arxiv.2404.03281,
  title  = {Explicit Sarkisov program for regular surfaces over arbitrary fields and applications},
  author = {Fabio Bernasconi and Andrea Fanelli and Julia Schneider and Susanna Zimmermann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.03281},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

v3: Added a new section on Geiser and Bertini involutions, and fully characterised points in Sarkisov general position in the plane. Corrected minor inaccuracies

R2 v1 2026-06-28T15:43:50.752Z