Simple groups of birational transformations in dimension two

DOI10.4171/CMH/486MaRDI QIDQ784192zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Christian Urech

Publication date 3 August 2020

Published in Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.09258

zbMATH Keywords

Cremona groupgroups of birational transformationsKähler surfacessimple groupssmall cancellation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Birational automorphisms, Cremona group and generalizations (14E07) Group actions on varieties or schemes (quotients) (14L30) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Complex Lie groups, group actions on complex spaces (32M05)

Abstract: We classify simple groups that act by birational transformations on compact complex K"ahler surfaces. Moreover, we show that every finitely generated simple group that acts non-trivially by birational transformations on a projective surface over an arbitrary field is finite.

Review text

The Cremona group \(\mathrm{Cr}_2(\mathbb{C})\) is the group of birational transformations of the complex projective plane \(\mathbb{P}^2\). It was a long-standing question whether \(\mathrm{Cr}_n(\mathbb{C})\) is simple group. Several years ago Serge Cantat and Stéphane Lamy made a breakthrough in [\textit{S. Cantat} et al., Acta Math. 210, No. 1, 31--94 (2013; Zbl 1278.14017)] by proving that \(\mathrm{Cr}_2(\mathbb{C})\) is not simple. In the paper under review, the author classifies simple subgroups of \(\mathrm{Cr}_2(\mathbb{C})\). Cantat-Lamy used a hyperbolic space on which the Cremona group acts. Elements of the Cremona group are divided into three types according to this action: loxodromic, parabolic or elliptic. The bulk of the paper under review is to prove that a simple subgroup of \(\mathrm{Cr}_2(\mathbb{C})\) does not contain any loxodromic element. Based on this result the author deduced that 1) any simple subgroup of \(\mathrm{Cr}_2(\mathbb{C})\) is isomorphic to a subgroup of \(\mathrm{PGL}(2,\mathbb{C})\); 2) any finitely generated subgroup of \(\mathrm{Cr}_2(\mathbb{C})\) is finite. As a corollary the author obtains a complete list of finite simple subgroups of \(\mathrm{Cr}_2(\mathbb{C})\).

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