Endomorphisms of singular del Pezzo surfaces

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Auteur principal: Totaro, Burt
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author Totaro, Burt
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contents A natural problem of algebraic dynamics is to classify the complex projective varieties that admit an endomorphism of degree greater than 1. Joshi solved the problem for all canonical del Pezzo surfaces with Picard number 1 except one, a surface with a du Val singularity of type $E_8$. The method of Bott vanishing does not resolve this case. We show here that the $E_8$ surface has no endomorphism of degree greater than 1. For the proof, we extend the method of Amerik-Rovinsky-Van de Ven, involving Chern number inequalities, from varieties to Deligne-Mumford stacks. This approach should be useful for other hard cases in the classification of varieties with endomorphisms.
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spellingShingle Endomorphisms of singular del Pezzo surfaces
Totaro, Burt
Algebraic Geometry
14J26, 14J45, 37F10
A natural problem of algebraic dynamics is to classify the complex projective varieties that admit an endomorphism of degree greater than 1. Joshi solved the problem for all canonical del Pezzo surfaces with Picard number 1 except one, a surface with a du Val singularity of type $E_8$. The method of Bott vanishing does not resolve this case. We show here that the $E_8$ surface has no endomorphism of degree greater than 1. For the proof, we extend the method of Amerik-Rovinsky-Van de Ven, involving Chern number inequalities, from varieties to Deligne-Mumford stacks. This approach should be useful for other hard cases in the classification of varieties with endomorphisms.
title Endomorphisms of singular del Pezzo surfaces
topic Algebraic Geometry
14J26, 14J45, 37F10
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17345