Canonical factorization of the quotient morphism for an affine G_a-variety

DOI10.1007/S00031-018-9472-YMaRDI QIDQ2313503zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gene Freudenburg

Publication date 19 July 2019

Published in Transformation Groups (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.08786

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Group actions on affine varieties (14R20)

Abstract: Working over a ground field of characteristic zero, this paper studies the quotient morphism $pi:XoY$ for an affine $mathbb{G}_a$-variety $X$ with affine quotient $Y$. It is shown that the degree modules associated to the $mathbb{G}_a$-action give a uniquely determined sequence of dominant $mathbb{G}_a$-equivariant morphisms, $X=X_{r}o{X}_{r-1}ocdotso{X}_{1}o{X}_0=Y$, where $X_i$ is an affine $mathbb{G}_a$-variety and $X_{i+1}o{X}_i$ is birational for each $ige1$. This is the canonical factorization of $pi$. We give an algorithm for finding the degree modules associated to the given $mathbb{G}_a$-action, and this yields the canonical factorization of the quotient morphism. The algorithm is applied to compute the canonical factorization for several examples, including the homogeneous $(2,5)$-action on $mathbb{A}^3$. By a fundamental result of Kaliman and Zaidenberg, any birational morphism of affine varieties is an affine modification, and each mapping in these examples is presented as a $mathbb{G}_a$-equivariant affine modification.

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