Infinitesimal deformations of rational surface automorphisms (Q1745327)

The basic problem of deformation theory in algebraic geometry involves watching a small deformation of a family of objects, such as manifolds or shemes with extra additional structure or morphisms\dots. In the paper under review, the author develops this theory for pairs \((X, f)\) where \(X\) is a complex compact manifold and \(f\) is a biholomorphism of \(X\). When \(X\) has a nonzero vector field, then by Kuranishi's theorem, \(X\) admits a universel deformation \((\mathcal K, B_X)\), where \(\mathcal K\) is the Kuranishi family and \(B_X\) is the Kuranishi space. The biholomorphism \(f\) of \(X\) acts naturally on \(B_X\) and the restriction of the family \(\mathcal K\) to the fixed locus \(Z_f\) is universal for the deformation functor of pairs \((X, f)\). Precisly, the Zariski tangent space of \(Z_f\) at the origin is identified with fixed vectors in \(H^1(X, TX)\) under the action of \(f_*\). The author deduces a bound of the number of moduli of \((X, f)\). He proposes a computation of this action in various examples for rational surface automorphisms.