The action of the Cremona group on rational curves of ${\mathbb{P}}^3$

Abstract

A Cremona transformation is a birational self-map of the projective space ${\mathbb{P}}^n$. Cremona transformations of ${\mathbb{P}}^n$ form a group and this group has a rational action on subvarieties of ${\mathbb{P}}^n$ and hence on its Hilbert scheme. We study this action on the family of rational curves of ${\mathbb{P}}^3$ and we prove the rectifiability of any one dimensional family. This shows that any uniruled surface is Cremona equivalent to a scroll and it answers a question of Bogomolov-Böhning related to the study of uniformly rational varieties. We provide examples of infinitely many scrolls in the same Cremona orbit and we show that a "general" scroll is not in the Cremona orbit of a "general" rational surface.

The paper is withdrawn due to an error in the computations leading to the proof of the main Theorem

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• On Cremona contractibility of unions of lines in the plane
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