Equivariant Triviality of Quasi-Monomial Triangular $$\mathbb{G}_{a}$$-Actions on $$\mathbb{A}^{4}$$

We give a direct and self-contained proof of the fact that additive group actions on affine four-space generated by certain types of triangular derivations are translations whenever they are proper. The argument, which is based on explicit techniques, provides an illustration of the difficulties encountered and an introduction to the more abstract methods which were used recently by the authors to solve the general triangular case.

On exotic affine 3-spheres

Every A 1 \mathbb {A}^{1} -bundle over A ∗ 2 , \mathbb {A}_{\ast }^{2}, the complex affine plane punctured at the origin, is trivial in the differentiable category, but there are infinitely many distinct isomorphy classes of algebraic bundles. Isomorphy types of total spaces of such algebraic bundles are considered; in particular, the complex affine 3 3 -sphere S C 3 , \mathbb {S}_{\mathbb {C}}^{3}, given by z 1 2 + z 2 2 + z 3 2 + z 4 2 = 1 , z_{1}^{2}+z_{2}^{2}+z_{3}^{2}+z_{4}^{2}=1, admits such a structure with an additional homogeneity property. Total spaces of nontrivial homogeneous A 1 \mathbb {A}^{1} -bundles over A ∗ 2 \mathbb {A}_{\ast }^{2} are classified up to G m \mathbb {G}_{m}…

Proper triangular Ga-actions on A^4 are translations

We describe the structure of geometric quotients for proper locally triangulable additve group actions on locally trivial A^3-bundles over a noetherian normal base scheme X defined over a field of characteristic 0. In the case where dim X=1, we show in particular that every such action is a translation with geometric quotient isomorphic to the total space of a vector bundle of rank 2 over X. As a consequence, every proper triangulable Ga-action on the affine four space A^4 over a field of characteristic 0 is a translation with geometric quotient isomorphic to A^3.

Proper twin-triangular $\mathbb {G}_{a}$-actions on $\mathbb {A}^{4}$ are translations