Exotic affine space

In algebraic geometry, an exotic affine space is a complex algebraic variety that is diffeomorphic to \mathbb{R}^{2n} for some n, but is not isomorphic as an algebraic variety to \mathbb{C}^n.[1][2][3] An example of an exotic \mathbb C^3 is the Koras–Russell cubic threefold,[4] which is the subset of \mathbb C^4 defined by the polynomial equation

\{(z_1,z_2,z_3,z_4)\in\mathbb C^4|z_1+z_1^2z_2+z_3^3+z_4^2=0\}.

References

  1. Snow, Dennis (2004), "The role of exotic affine spaces in the classification of homogeneous affine varieties", Algebraic Transformation Groups and Algebraic Varieties: Proceedings of the Conference Interesting Algebraic Varieties Arising in Algebraic Transformation Group Theory Held at the Erwin Schrödinger Institute, Vienna, October 22-26, 2001, Encyclopaedia of Mathematical Sciences 132, Berlin: Springer, pp. 169–175, doi:10.1007/978-3-662-05652-3_9, MR 2090674.
  2. Freudenburg, G.; Russell, P. (2005), "Open problems in affine algebraic geometry", Affine algebraic geometry, Contemporary Mathematics 369, Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society, pp. 1–30, doi:10.1090/conm/369/06801, MR 2126651.
  3. Zaidenberg, Mikhail (1995-06-02). "On exotic algebraic structures on affine spaces". arXiv:alg-geom/9506005.
  4. L Makar-Limanov (1996), "On the hypersurface x+x^2+y+z^2=t^3=0 in \mathbb C^4 or a \mathbb C^3-like threefold which is not \mathbb C^3", Israel J Math 96: 419–429
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