A characterization of semisimple plane polynomial automorphisms

DOI10.1016/J.JPAA.2009.06.004MaRDI QIDQ847143zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jean-Philippe Furter, Stefan Maubach

Publication date 12 February 2010

Published in Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0804.2157

zbMATH Keywords

diagonalizable automorphismsinfinite dimensional algebraic varietiessemisimple polynomial automorphismsZariski closed sets

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Birational automorphisms, Cremona group and generalizations (14E07) Affine spaces (automorphisms, embeddings, exotic structures, cancellation problem) (14R10)

Abstract: It is well-known that an element of the linear group ${mGL}_n(C)$ is semisimple if and only if its conjugacy class is Zariski closed. The aim of this paper is to show that the same result holds for the group of complex plane polynomial automorphisms.

Review text

A general result on complex reductive algebraic groups gives that an element of the linear group \(GL_n({\mathbb C})\) is semisimple if and only if its conjugacy class is Zariski closed. The aim of the paper under review is to show that a similar result holds for the group of automorphisms of the algebra of complex polynomials in two variables. The result hides two definitions: what is a semisimple polynomial automorphism and what topology does one have on the group of polynomial automorphisms? The space \({\mathcal E}={\mathbb C}[X,Y]^2\) of polynomial endomorphisms of \({\mathbb C}[X,Y]\) is naturally an infinite dimensional variety with the topology of the inductive limit of the subspaces \({\mathcal E}_{\leq m}=\{(f_1,f_2)\mid \text{deg}f_i\leq m\}\) equipped with the Zariski topology. Following a paper by the same authors [J. Pure Appl. Algebra 211, No. 2, 445--458 (2007; Zbl 1127.14054)] a polynomial automorphism is semisimple if it admits a vanishing polynomial with single roots. In the present paper, the authors show that this is equivalent to being diagonalizable, i.e. conjugate to some diagonal automorphism \((aX,bY)\), where \(a,b\in{\mathbb C}^{\ast}\). The main result is: A complex plane polynomial automorphism is semisimple if and only if its conjugacy class is closed. As an application, the authors study automorphisms \(f\) of \({\mathbb C}[X,Y,Z]\) which are of finite order and fix the variable \(Z\). It is known that the authomorphism \(f_z\) induced by \(f\) on the plane \(Z=z\) is generically diagonalizable. Now the authors show that \(f_z\) is diagonalizable for all \(z\).

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