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Borel subgroups of the automorphism group of an affine variety

Michael Chitayat·Daniel Daigle·Andriy Regeta
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We study Borel subgroups of the automorphism group of an affine variety X and their associated Lie algebras. We prove a bijective correspondence between the set of Borel subgroups of Aut(X) and the set of maximal nested unipotent subgroups of Aut(X). We show that if X is factorial of dimension at most 3, then the Lie algebra of every maximal nested unipotent subgroup has the special property of being what we call "integral"; we also show that this fails for X = affine space of dimension > 3. As an application of our results, we show that Nagata's automorphism is contained in a unique Borel subgroup.

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Michael Chitayat, Daniel Daigle, Andriy Regeta. 2026-10-05. Borel subgroups of the automorphism group of an affine variety. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.06664

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