Research-Boundedness of Fano varieties and birational automorphism groups of rationally connected varieties

Research

Algebra & Combinatorics Seminar

Boundedness of Fano varieties and birational automorphism groups of rationally connected varieties

Speaker: Jinsong Xu (Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University)
Time: Dec 26, 2018, 16:45-17:45
Location: Conference Room 415, Hui Yuan 3#

Abstract: A group is called Jordan if each of its finite subgroup has an abelian subgroup of bounded index. In this talk, we survey recent advances in the study of Jordan property of birational automorphism groups of algebraic varieties. With the help of boundedness of Fano varieties, we will discuss an application to rationality question.