Symmetric noncommutative birational transformations

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Abstract: In a previous paper (arXiv:1410.5207) certain birational transformations were constructed between the noncommutative schemes associated to quadratic and cubic three dimensional Sklyanin algebras. In the current paper we consider the inverse birational transformations and show that they are of the same type. Moreover we extend everything to the mathbbZ-algebras context, which allows us to incorporate the noncommutative quadrics introduced by Van den Bergh.


The classification of (commutative) projective surfaces is well-known. An analogous classification of ``noncommutative surfaces has been in progress for over 20 years, with goals and conjectures described in [\textit{M. Artin}, Lond. Math. Soc. Lect. Note Ser. 238, 1--19 (1997; Zbl 0888.16025)]. The paper under review makes important progress on ``birational transformations from noncommutative \(\mathbb{P}^1 \times \mathbb{P}^1\) to noncommutative \(\mathbb{P}^2\), showing that these transformations are invertible to an extent similar to the commutative case. More specifically, the paper studies Sklyanin algebras of dimension \(3\) over an algebraically closed field \(k\), a special case of Artin-Schelter regular algebras. Such an algebra is a coordinate ring \(A\) of a noncommutative \(\mathbb{P}^1 \times \mathbb{P}^1\) if the generators of \(A\) satisfy cubic relations or a coordinate ring \(A'\) of a noncommutative \(\mathbb{P}^2\) if the generators of \(A'\) satisfy quadratic relations. The category of graded algebras is not general enough, so the main results depend on \(\mathbb{Z}\)-algebras, ``roughly speaking, infinite matrix rings associated to graded rings [\textit{S. Sierra}, Algebr. Represent. Theory 14, No. 2, 377--390 (2011; Zbl 1258.16047)]. There are three main results. First, given a cubic Sklyanin \(\mathbb{Z}\)-algebra \(A\), there is a quadratic Sklyanin \(\mathbb{Z}\)-algebra \(A'\) and inclusion \(A' \hookrightarrow A^{(2)}\) inducing an isomorphism between their function fields. Given the contravariant correspondence between rings and schemes, this corresponds to a birational transformation \(\mathbb{P}^1 \times \mathbb{P}^1 \dashrightarrow \mathbb{P}^2\). This theorem extends results of [\textit{D. Presotto} and \textit{M. Van den Bergh}, J. Noncommut. Geom. 10, No. 1, 221--244 (2016; Zbl 1371.14005)] to the \(\mathbb{Z}\)-algebra case. The second main result is a kind of converse to the first, giving a noncommutative birational transformation \(\mathbb{P}^2 \dashrightarrow \mathbb{P}^1 \times \mathbb{P}^1\), which did not appear in the previous paper. The extension to \(\mathbb{Z}\)-algebras allows the inclusion of the noncommutative quadrics of [\textit{M. Van den Bergh}, Int. Math. Res. Not. 2011, No. 17, 3983--4026 (2011; Zbl 1311.14003)]. The third main result shows that any quadratic transform (described in Section 5), is in some sense invertible. The birational transformations of the previous paragraph are quadratic transforms, as is a noncommutative version of the Cremona transform. The paper is fairly self-contained, reviewing material on noncommutative projective schemes, birational transformations, Sklyanin algebras, \(\mathbb{Z}\)-algebras, \(\mathbb{Z}\)-domains, and \(\mathbb{Z}\)-field of fractions. A few proofs refer back to [\textit{D. Presotto} and \textit{M. Van den Bergh}, J. Noncommut. Geom. 10, No. 1, 221--244 (2016; Zbl 1371.14005)], but the great majority of proofs are original to this paper and completely spelled out.











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