Finiteness conjecture for birational symmetries of simple foliations

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Let K=C{\mathbb K}={\mathbb C}, and let DD be a derivation of C[x,y]{\mathbb C}[x,y]. Assume that DD is simple, meaning that it does not stabilize a nontrivial ideal. Let FD{\mathcal F}_D be the algebraic foliation on C2{\mathbb C}^2 defined by DD, and let Bir(FD){\rm Bir}({\mathcal F}_D) be the group of birational maps of C2{\mathbb C}^2 that stabilize FD{\mathcal F}_D.

Finiteness conjecture. If DD is simple, then

Bir(FD) is finite.{\rm Bir}({\mathcal F}_D)\text{ is finite}.

This would constrain the birational symmetry groups of algebraic foliations arising from simple derivations. The paper states the claim as a conjecture to be considered in forthcoming work, and no resolution is supplied here.

References

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Luís Gustavo Mendes and Ivan Pan, “On plane polynomial automorphisms commuting with simple derivations”, arXiv:1604.04933 (2016).

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