Families of group actions, generic isotriviality, and linearization

Publication date 4 September 2014

Abstract: We prove a "Generic Equivalence Theorem which says that two affine morphisms

p : S o Y

and

q : T o Y

of varieties with isomorphic (closed) fibers become isomorphic under a dominant etale base change

p h i : U o Y

. A special case is the following result. Call a morphism

p h i : X o Y

a "fibration with fiber

F

" if

p h i

is flat and all fibers are (reduced and) isomorphic to

F

. Then an affine fibration with fiber

F

admits an etale dominant morphism

m u : U o Y

such that the pull-back is a trivial fiber bundle:

U i m e s_{Y} X s i m e q U i m e s F

. As an application we give short proofs of the following two (known) results: (a) Every affine

A^{1}

-fibration over a normal variety is locally trivial in the Zariski-topology; (b) Every affine

A^{2}

-fibration over a smooth curve is locally trivial in the Zariski-topology. We also study families of reductive group actions on

A^{2}

parametrized by curves and show that every faithful action of a non-finite reductive group on

A A^{3}

is linearizable, i.e.

G

-isomorphic to a representation of

G

.

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