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Tori in the Cremona groups

Algebraic Geometry 2015-06-05 v3

Abstract

We classify up to conjugacy the subgroups of certain types in the full, in the affine, and in the special affine Cremona groups. We prove that the normalizers of these subgroups are algebraic. As an application, we obtain new results in the Linearization Problem generalizing to disconnected groups Bia\lynicki-Birula's results of 1966-67. We prove "fusion theorems" for nn-dimensional tori in the affine and in the special affine Cremona groups of rank nn. In the final section we introduce and discuss the notions of Jordan decomposition and torsion primes for the Cremona groups.

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@article{arxiv.1207.5205,
  title  = {Tori in the Cremona groups},
  author = {Vladimir L. Popov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.5205},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

30 pages. On p.13 a footnote on the existence of maximal tori of nonmaximal dimension in the affine and in the special affine Cremona groups is added

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