3 papers
math.AG2025
On Mori dreamness of blowups along space curves
Tiago Duarte Guerreiro, Sokratis Zikas
We study the problem of determining when the blowup along a smooth space curve is a Mori Dream Space. We obtain sufficient conditions, as well obstructions…
math.AG2025
On Gizatullin's Problem for quartic surfaces of Picard rank
Carolina Araujo, Daniela Paiva, Sokratis Zikas
In this paper we determine which automorphisms of general smooth quartic surfaces of Picard rank are restrictions of Cremona transformations of $\mathbb…
math.AG2025
Umemura Quadric Fibrations and Maximal Subgroups of
Enrica Floris, Sokratis Zikas
We study the equivariant geometry of special quadric fibrations, called Umemura quadric fibrations, as well as the maximality of their automorphism groups inside …