Birational maps of Severi-Brauer surfaces, with applications to Cremona groups of higher rank

arXiv2211.17123MaRDI QIDQ6419082FDOQ6419082

Authors: Jérémy Blanc, Julia Schneider, Egor Yasinsky 

Publication date: 30 November 2022

Abstract: We describe the group of birational transformations of a non-trivial Severi-Brauer surface over a perfect field $K$, proving in particular that if it contains a point of degree $6$, then it is not generated by elements of finite order as it admits a surjective group homomorphism to $mathbbZ$. We then use this result to study Mori fibre spaces over the field of complex numbers, for which the generic fibre is a non-trivial Severi-Brauer surface. We prove that any group of cardinality at most the one of $mathbbC$ is a quotient of any Cremona group of rank at least $4$. As a consequence, this gives a negative answer to the question of Dolgachev of whether the Cremona groups of all ranks are generated by involutions. We also prove that the $3$-torsion of the Cremona group of rank at least $4$ is not countable.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fano varieties (14J45) Rational and birational maps (14E05) Birational automorphisms, Cremona group and generalizations (14E07) Minimal model program (Mori theory, extremal rays) (14E30) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Groupoids (i.e. small categories in which all morphisms are isomorphisms) (20L05)

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