On solvable subgroups of the Cremona group

Abstract: The Cremona group

m a t h r m B i r (m a t h b b P_{m}^{2} a t h b b C)

is the group of birational self-maps of

m a t h b b P_{m}^{2} a t h b b C

. Using the action of

m a t h r m B i r (m a t h b b P_{m}^{2} a t h b b C)

on the Picard-Manin space of

m a t h b b P_{m}^{2} a t h b b C

we characterize its solvable subgroups. If

m a t h r m G s u b s e t m a t h r m B i r (m a t h b b P_{m}^{2} a t h b b C)

is solvable, non abelian, and infinite, then up to finite index: either any element of

m a t h r m G

is of finite order or conjugate to an automorphism of

m a t h b b P_{m}^{2} a t h b b C

, or

m a t h r m G

preserves a unique fibration that is rational or elliptic, or

m a t h r m G

is, up to conjugacy, a subgroup of the group generated by one hyperbolic monomial map and the diagonal automorphisms. We also give some corollaries.

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