On a theorem of Castelnuovo (Q2425542): Difference between revisions

A birational map of the projective plane is called a Cremona transformation. If it preserves a pencil of lines, it is callled de Jonquières. The authors prove that \(F\) is a Cremona transformation which fixes point-wise an irreducible curve of genus \(>1\), then either \(F\) is conjugate (in the Cremona group) to a de Jonquières transformation or it is of order 2 or 3. A slightly weaker version was proved by \textit{G. Castelnuovo} [Rom. Acc. L. Rend. (5) I, No. 1, 47--50 (1892; JFM 24.0577.03); or see \textit{J. L. Coolidge}, A treatise on algebraic plane curves, Dover (1959; Zbl 0085.36403)].