Rational surface automorphisms with positive entropy

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Abstract: The aim of this paper is to construct many examples of rational surface automorphisms with positive entropy by means of the concept of orbit data. We show that if an orbit data satisfies some mild conditions, then there exists an automorphism realizing the orbit data. Applying this result, we describe the set of entropy values of the rational surface automorphisms in terms of Weyl groups.


Let \(F: X\rightarrow X\) be an automorphism of a surface \(X\). The entropy of \(F\) is the logarithm of the spectral radius of NEWLINE\[NEWLINEF^*: H^2(X,\mathbb{Z})\rightarrow H^2(X,\mathbb{Z}).NEWLINE\]NEWLINE By [\textit{S. Cantat}, C. R. Acad. Sci., Paris, Sér. I, Math. 328, No. 10, 901--906 (1999; Zbl 0943.37021)], a surface admitting an automorphism with positive entropy is either a \(K3\) surface, an Enriques surface, a complex torus or a rational surface.NEWLINENEWLINEThe paper under review is the presentation of a very big family of automorphisms of rational surfaces with positive entropy. These automorphisms are obtained as resolutions of birational maps that preserve a cuspidal cubic in \(\mathbb{P}^2\).




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