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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]