Isomorphisms between cylinders over Danielewski surfaces (Q2051344)

The paper deals with one aspect of the cancellation problem. Consider non-isomorphic algebraic varieties \(M_1\) and \(M_2\). Can cylinders over them be isomorphic? First examples were provided by Danielewski. The main idea is nicely described in the paper [\textit{T. Asanuma}, Invent. Math. 138, No. 2, 281--306 (1999; Zbl 0933.14027)]. A special Danielewski surface is an affine surface which is the total space of a principal \((\mathbb C, +)\)-bundle over an affine line with a multiple origin. Using a fiber product trick introduced by Danielewski, it is known that cylinders over two such surfaces are always isomorphic provided that both bases have the same number of origins. The goal of the paper is to give an explicit method to find isomorphisms between cylinders over special Danielewski surfaces. The method is based on the construction of appropriate locally nilpotent derivations. It would be interesting also to compare this with classical Danielewski method exposed in Asanuma's paper.