Uniqueness of \(\mathbb C^*\)- and \(\mathbb{C}_+\)-actions on Gizatullin surfaces (Q941091)

The paper is connected to a series of previous papers aiming to classify all affine surfaces admitting a \(\mathbb C^*\)- action or a \(\mathbb C^+\)-fibration. In this paper Gizatullin surfaces are considered. Let us cite the abstract. ``A Gizatullin surface is a normal affine surface \(V\) over \(\mathbb C\), which can be completed by a zigzag: that is, by a linear chain of smooth rational curves.'' Any Gizatullin surface admits a \(\mathbb C^+\)-fibration over an affine line (base). On the other hand, any surface admitting a \(\mathbb C^*\)-action (\(\mathbb C^*\)-surface) has a so called \(DPD\) representation as \(\text{Spec }R,\) for a special ring \(R\), provided that this action is hyperbolic [\textit{H. Flenner, M. Zaidenberg}, Osaka J. Math. 40, No. 4, 981--1009 (2003; Zbl 1093.14084)]. There are two main theorems in the paper. The first one provides a sufficient condition for a Gizatullin surface to admit at most two \(\mathbb C^+\)- actions up to conjugation by automorphisms of the surface and the base. The condition is based on the properties of the corresponding zizag and of the singular fiber. In the second theorem the authors exhibit large subclasses of Gizatullin \(\mathbb C^*\)-surfaces for which a \(\mathbb C^*\)-action is essentially unique and for which there are at most two conjugacy classes of \(\mathbb C^+\)-fibrations over \(\mathbb C^1\). These subclasses are defined in terms of the properties of the \(DPD\) representation of a surface.