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most citedAsymptotically rigid mapping class groups I: Finiteness properties of braided Thompson's and Houghton's groups

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math.AG2025

Characterizing Varieties Using Birational Transformations

Nathan Chen, Louis Esser, Andriy Regeta +2

Suppose is an irreducible complex variety. We show that when is ruled, the group of birational transformations , as a group, determines up to birational transfo…

math.AG2025

Representations of finite subgroups of Cremona groups

Alexander Duncan, Bailey Heath, Christian Urech

The Cremona group of rank n over a field k is the group of birational automorphisms of the n-dimensional projective space over the field k. We study the minimal dimension such that…

math.AG2024

Group Theoretical Characterizations of Rationality

Andriy Regeta, Christian Urech, Immanuel van Santen

Let X be an irreducible variety and Bir(X) its group of birational transformations. We show that the group structure of Bir(X) determines whether X is rational and whether X is rul…

math.AG2024

The Structure of Algebraic Families of Birational Transformations

Andriy Regeta, Christian Urech, Immanuel van Santen

We give a description of the algebraic families of birational transformations of an algebraic variety X. As an application, we show that the morphisms to Bir(X) given by algebraic…

math.AG2023

On a Theorem by Lin and Shinder through the Lens of Median Geometry

Anthony Genevois, Anne Lonjou, Christian Urech

Recently, Lin and Shinder constructed non-trivial homomorphisms from Cremona groups of rank >2 to \mathbb{Z} using motivic techniques. In this short note we propose an alternative…

math.AG2020

Actions of Cremona groups on CAT(0) cube complexes

Anne Lonjou, Christian Urech

For each d we construct CAT(0) cube complexes on which Cremona groups rank d act by isometries. From these actions we deduce new and old group theoretical and dynamical results abo…

math.AG2019

Continuous automorphisms of Cremona groups

Christian Urech, Susanna Zimmermann

We show that if a group automorphism of a Cremona group of arbitrary rank is also a homeomorphism with respect to either the Zariski or the Euclidean topology, then it is inner up…

math.AG2019★ 3 cited

On the characterization of Danielewski surfaces by their automorphism group

Alvaro Liendo, Andriy Regeta, Christian Urech

In this note we show that if the automorphism group of a normal affine surface is isomorphic to the automorphism group of a Danielewski surface, then is isomorphic to a Dan…

math.AG2018★ 4 cited

Characterization of affine surfaces with a torus action by their automorphism groups

Alvaro Liendo, Andriy Regeta, Christian Urech

In this paper we prove that if two normal affine surfaces and have isomorphic automorphism groups, then every connected algebraic group acting regularly and faithfully on…

math.AG2018

Simple groups of birational transformations in dimension two

Christian Urech

We classify simple groups that act by birational transformations on compact complex Kähler surfaces. Moreover, we show that every finitely generated simple group that acts non-triv…

math.AG2018

Subgroups of elliptic elements of the Cremona group

Christian Urech

The Cremona group is the group of birational transformations of the complex projective plane. In this paper we classify its subgroups that consist only of elliptic elements using e…

math.AG2018

A new presentation of the plane Cremona group

Christian Urech, Susanna Zimmermann

We give a presentation of the plane Cremona group over an algebraically closed field with respect to the generators given by the Theorem of Noether and Castelnuovo. This presentati…

math.AG2016

Remarks on the degree growth of birational transformations

Christian Urech

We look at sequences of positive integers that can be realized as degree sequences of iterates of rational dominant maps of smooth projective varieties over arbitrary fields. New c…

math.AG2016

On homomorphisms between Cremona groups

Christian Urech

We look at algebraic embeddings of the Cremona group in variables to the group of birational transformations of an algebraic variety . First we study geom…