Rational surface maps with invariant meromorphic two-forms (Q2634875)

The authors study surface maps with invariant two-forms. That is, let \(S\) be a smooth complex projective surface, \(\eta\) be a meromorphic two-form on \(S\), and \(f:S\to S\) be a rational map. Then \(\eta\) is an invariant two-form of \(f\) if \(f^*(\eta)=\delta \eta\) for some \(\delta=\delta(f,\eta)\in \mathbb{C}^*\). The first problem is to understand when the invariant two-form is zero-free under birational conjugacy, as most known examples suggest. They found that this is true under a mild topological condition on \(f\). That is the topological degree of \(f\) is different from its first dynamical degree. Then they use the existence of zero-free invariant two-forms to understand the algebraic stability of the rational map \(f\). In particular, a rational self-map induces a pull-back \(f^*: \mathrm{Div}(S)\to \mathrm{Div}(S)\), which descends to an operator \(f^*:\mathrm{Pic}(S)\to \mathrm{Pic}(S)\) on the linear equivalence class. The map \(f\) is algebraically stable if \((f^n)^*=(f^*)^n\) for all \(n\). \textit{J. E. Fornæss} and \textit{N. Sibony} [Duke Math. J. 65, No. 2, 345--380 (1992; Zbl 0761.32015)] observed that the algebraic stability fails when some irreducible curve \(f\) is contracted by \(f\). The authors prove that the map \(f\) with an invariant two-form can be made to be algebraic stable if and only if \(f\) acts nicely on the poles by blowing up the forward images of the irreducible curves.