Elliptic fibrations on cubic surfaces

DOI10.1016/J.JPAA.2009.06.014MaRDI QIDQ2655014zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Daniel Ryder, Gavin Brown

Publication date 22 January 2010

Published in Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.0696, https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/15878

zbMATH Keywords

del Pezzo surfaceselliptic fibrations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rational and birational maps (14E05) Birational automorphisms, Cremona group and generalizations (14E07) Fano varieties (14J45) Computational aspects of algebraic surfaces (14Q10)

Abstract: We classify elliptic fibrations birational to a nonsingular, minimal cubic surface over a field of characteristic zero. Our proof is adapted to provide computational techniques for the analysis of such fibrations, and we describe an implementation of this analysis in computer algebra.

Review text

Let \(X\) be a minimal nonsingular cubic surface defined over a field \(k\) of characteristic zero. An elliptic structure on \(X\) is a rational dominant map \(X\dashrightarrow B\) defined over \(k\), the generic fiber of which is an elliptic curve. In this paper, elliptic structures on \(X\) are described in the following way: first, some special elliptic structures (Halphen structures) are constructed, then it is proved that any structure can be transformed into a Halphen structure by means of a birational self-map which is a composition of Bertini and Geiser involutions. An explicit algorithm of untwisting a given elliptic structure by suitable birational involutions is described and illustrated by numerical examples done on the computer. The paper is very nicely written.

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