Distortion in Cremona groups

DOI10.2422/2036-2145.201806_005MaRDI QIDQ5856734zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Serge Cantat, Yves Cornulier

Publication date 29 March 2021

Published in ANNALI SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE - CLASSE DI SCIENZE (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.01674

zbMATH Keywords

Cremona groupdistortion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Birational automorphisms, Cremona group and generalizations (14E07) Automorphisms of surfaces and higher-dimensional varieties (14J50) Geometric group theory (20F65)

Abstract: We study distortion of elements in two-dimensional Cremona groups over algebraically closed fields of characteristic zero. Namely, we obtain the following trichotomy: non-elliptic elements (i.e., those whose powers have unbounded degree) are undistorted; elliptic elements have a double exponential distortion when they are virtually unipotent and an exponential distortion otherwise.

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