| Speaker: | Hsueh-Yung Lin (Kavli IPMU) |
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| Title: | Motivic invariants of birational maps and Cremona groups |
| Date (JST): | Thu, Jun 10, 2021, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| Place: | Zoom |
| Abstract: | (Joint with E. Shinder and S. Zimmerman) In characteristic zero, birational maps of projective varieties factorize through a sequence of blow-ups and blow-downs along smooth centers. In this talk, we will study to which extent these factorization centers are unique. We construct motivic invariants of birational maps which account for the non-uniqueness of centers. For surfaces over a perfect field, we prove the uniqueness of centers in the strongest possible sense. In higher dimension, the centers fail to be unique and the non-uniqueness has applications on Cremona groups, which eventually leads to negative answers to questions of Cheltsov and Dolgachev. |
