Algebraic surfaces and hyperbolic geometry

MaRDI QIDQ2918467zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Burt Totaro

Publication date 6 October 2012

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.3825

zbMATH Keywords

algebraic surfacesline bundles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Divisors, linear systems, invertible sheaves (14C20) (K3) surfaces and Enriques surfaces (14J28) Automorphisms of surfaces and higher-dimensional varieties (14J50) Fuchsian groups and automorphic functions (aspects of compact Riemann surfaces and uniformization) (30F35) Conformal metrics (hyperbolic, Poincaré, distance functions) (30F45) Complex manifolds (32Q99)

Abstract: This is a survey of the Kawamata-Morrison cone conjecture on the structure of Calabi-Yau varieties and more generally Calabi-Yau pairs. We discuss the proof of the cone conjecture for algebraic surfaces, with plenty of examples. We show that the automorphism group of a K3 surface need not be commensurable with an arithmetic group, which answers a question by Mazur.

Review text

The author surveys the Morrison-Kawamata cone conjecture both for Calabi-Yau varieties and Calabi-Yau pairs. Many explicit examples are provided in order to clarify definitions and stated facts.NEWLINENEWLINEIn the two dimensional case, the solution of such a conjecture is stated [\textit{H. Sterk}, Math. Z. 189, 507--513 (1985; Zbl 0545.14032)], \textit{Y. Namikawa} [Math. Ann. 270, 201--222 (1985; Zbl 0536.14024)] and \textit{Y. Kawamata} [Int. J. Math. 8, No. 5, 665--687 (1997; Zbl 0931.14022)]. An outline of the proof of this result is also given. The author provides an extension of the above result to the case of Calabi-Yau pairs, obtained by the author [Duke Math. J. 154, No. 2, 241--263 (2010; Zbl 1203.14046)], and an outline of the proof is also given.NEWLINENEWLINEThe author also provides conditions in order to construct \(K3\) surfaces whose group of automorphisms is a discrete group not commensurable to an arithmetic group. Explicit examples are provided. In the last example, the author considers an explicit smooth rational surface (obtained by blowing-up of \(12\) points of the complex projective plane) whose group of automorphisms is \(\Gamma=\mathrm{PGL}(2,\rho)\), where \(\rho=e^{2 \pi i/3}\). The group \(\Gamma\) acts on the hyperbolic \(3\)-space as a discrete group and it contains an index \(24\) subgroup which uniformizes the complement of the well-known figure-eight knot.NEWLINENEWLINEThe paper is nicely written and very friendly to non-specialists.NEWLINENEWLINEFor the entire collection see [Zbl 1242.14002].

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• Finiteness of real structures on KLT Calabi-Yau regular smooth pairs of dimension 2
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• The Morrison-Kawamata cone conjecture for singular symplectic varieties
• Rational surfaces with a non-arithmetic automorphism group
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