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Trudy Mat. Inst. Steklova, 2009 Volume 264, Pages 55–62 (Mi tm798)

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On Elements of Order $p^s$ in the Plane Cremona Group over a Field of Characteristic $p$

I. V. Dolgachev

Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Abstract: We show that the plane Cremona group over a field of characteristic $p>0$ does not contain elements of order of power of $p$ larger than $2$. We also describe conjugacy classes of elements of order $p^2$.

UDC: 512.7

Received in August 2008

Language: English


 English version:
Proceedings of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics, 2009, 264, 48–55

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