Automorphism groups of affine varieties and a characterization of affine n-space

DOI10.1090/MOSC/262zbMATH Open1423.14267arXiv1501.06362OpenAlexW2962762274MaRDI QIDQ4584298FDOQ4584298

Authors: Hanspeter Kraft 

Publication date: 30 August 2018

Published in: Transactions of the Moscow Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that the automorphism group of affine n-space $A^n$ determines $A^n$ up to isomorphism: If $X$ is a connected affine variety such that $Aut(X)$ is isomorphic to $Aut(A^n)$ as ind-groups, then $X$ is isomorphic to $A^n$ as a variety. We also show that every finite group and every torus appears as $Aut(X)$ for a suitable affine variety $X$, but that $Aut(X)$ cannot be isomorphic to a semisimple group. In fact, if $Aut(X)$ is finite dimensional and $X$ not isomorphic to the affine line $A^1$, then the connected component $Aut(X{)}^0$ is a torus. Concerning the structure of $Aut(A^n)$ we prove that any homomorphism $Aut(A^n)oG$ of ind-groups either factors through the Jacobian determinant $jaccolonAut(A^n)o{k}^{\ast }$, or it is a closed immersion. For $SAut(A^n):=ker(jac)$ we show that every nontrivial homomorphism $SAut(A^n)oG$ is a closed immersion. Finally, we prove that every non-trivial homomorphism $SAut(A^n)oSAut(A^n)$ is an automorphism, and is given by conjugation with an element from $Aut(A^n)$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.06362

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zbMATH Keywords

vector fieldsautomorphism groups of affine varietiesind-groupsaffine \(n\)-spacesLie algebras of ind-groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Group actions on varieties or schemes (quotients) (14L30) Group actions on affine varieties (14R20) Infinite-dimensional Lie (super)algebras (17B65) Geometric invariant theory (14L24) Affine spaces (automorphisms, embeddings, exotic structures, cancellation problem) (14R10) Automorphisms, derivations, other operators for Lie algebras and super algebras (17B40) Lie algebras of vector fields and related (super) algebras (17B66) Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05) Other algebraic groups (geometric aspects) (14L40)

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