The tame automorphism group of an affine quadric threefold acting on a square complex

DOI10.5802/JEP.8MaRDI QIDQ487726zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Cinzia Bisi, Jean-Philippe Furter, Stéphane Lamy

Publication date 23 January 2015

Published in Journal de l’École polytechnique — Mathématiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.6153

zbMATH Keywords

affine quadricautomorphism groupcube complexTits alternative

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Birational automorphisms, Cremona group and generalizations (14E07) Automorphisms of surfaces and higher-dimensional varieties (14J50) Group actions on affine varieties (14R20) Geometric group theory (20F65)

Abstract: We study the group Tame(SL${}_2$) of tame automorphisms of a smooth affine 3-dimensional quadric, which we can view as the underlying variety of SL(2,$mathbbC$). We construct a square complex on which the group admits a natural cocompact action, and we prove that the complex is CAT(0) and hyperbolic. We propose two applications of this construction: We show that any finite subgroup in Tame(SL${}_2$) is linearizable, and that Tame(SL${}_2$) satisfies the Tits alternative.

Review text

In the paper under review, the authors introduce the notion of \textit{tame\ automorphism} for the affine dimension 3 complex smooth quadric \(Q=\{xt-yz=1\}\subset{\mathbb C}^4\); this notion is inspired by the homonymous one related to polynomial automorphisms of \({\mathbb C}^3\) which are finite product of affine and elementary automorphisms. Denote by \(\mathrm{Tame}(Q)\) the subgroup of \(\mathrm{Aut}(Q)\) consisting of such time automorphisms. The authors define a graph \(\mathcal{C}\) with additional structure associated to that subgroup, so-called \textit{complex square}, in such a way that group acts by isometries on this graph and prove that then \(\mathcal{C}\) is \(CAT(0)\) and hyperbolic. As applications they deduce, on one hand, that \(\mathrm{Tame}(Q)\) is linearizable, i.e., conjugate to a subgroup of the orthogonal group \(O_4\) associated to the quadratic form \(xt-yz\) of \({\mathbb C}^4\), and on the other hand, that \(\mathrm{Tame}(Q)\) satisfies the Tits alternative, i.e. every subgroup of \(\mathrm{Tame}(Q)\) contains, either a solvable subgroup of finite index or a free subgroup of rank 2. Furthermore, in an appendix they prove that any non linear element in \(\mathrm{Tame}(Q)\) can be reduced to an element of \(O_4\) by composing with finitely many suitable elements which are elementary in some sense.

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