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According to a theorem of Cantat [Ann. of Math. (2) 174 (2011), pp. 299–340] and Urech [J. Reine Angew. Math. 770 (2021), pp. 27–57], an analog of the classical Tits alternative holds for the group of birational automorphisms of a compact complex Kähler surface. We established in Arzhantsev and Zaidenberg [Int. Math. Res. Not. IMRN 2022 (2022), pp. 8162–8195] the following Tits-type alternative: if X is a toric affine variety and G\subset \operatorname {Aut}(X) is a subgroup generated by a finite set of unipotent subgroups normalized by the acting torus then either G contains a nonabelian free subgroup or G is a unipotent affine algebraic group. In the present paper we extend the latter result to any group G of automorphisms of a complex affine surface generated by a finite collection of unipotent algebraic subgroups. It occurs that either G contains a nonabelian free subgroup or G is a metabelian unipotent algebraic group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we show that evolution algebras over any given field \Bbbk are universally finite. In other words, given any finite group G, there exist infinitely many regular evolution algebras X such that Aut(X)\cong G. The proof is built upon the construction of a covariant faithful functor from the category of finite simple (non oriented) graphs to the category of (finite dimensional) regular evolution algebras. Finally, we show that any constant finite algebraic affine group scheme \mathbf {G} over \Bbbk is isomorphic to the algebraic affine group scheme of automorphisms of a regular evolution algebra. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Given an affine algebraic variety X, we prove that if the neutral component \mathrm {Aut}^\circ (X) of the automorphism group consists of algebraic elements, then it is nested, i.e., is a direct limit of algebraic subgroups. This improves our earlier result (see Perepechko and Regeta [Transform. Groups 28 (2023), pp. 401–412]). To prove it, we obtain the following fact. If a connected ind-group G contains a closed connected nested ind-subgroup H\subset G, and for any g\in G some positive power of g belongs to H, then G=H. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We produce counterexamples to the birational Torelli theorem for Calabi–Yau manifolds in arbitrarily high dimension: this is done by exhibiting a series of non-birational pairs of Calabi–Yau (n^2-1)-folds which, for n \geq 2 even, admit an isometry between their middle cohomologies. These varieties also satisfy an \mathbb {L}-equivalence relation in the Grothendieck ring of varieties, i.e. the difference of their classes annihilates a power of the class of the affine line. We state this last property for a broader class of Calabi–Yau pairs, namely all those which are realized as pushforwards of a general (1,1)-section on a homogeneous roof in the sense of Kanemitsu, along its two extremal contractions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]