{ "id": "0910.2717", "version": "v2", "published": "2009-10-14T20:04:52.000Z", "updated": "2010-03-12T14:37:29.000Z", "title": "Singular del Pezzo surfaces that are equivariant compactifications", "authors": [ "Ulrich Derenthal", "Daniel Loughran" ], "comment": "14 pages, main result extended to non-closed ground fields", "categories": [ "math.AG", "math.NT" ], "abstract": "We determine which singular del Pezzo surfaces are equivariant compactifications of G_a^2, to assist with proofs of Manin's conjecture for such surfaces. Additionally, we give an example of a singular quartic del Pezzo surface that is an equivariant compactification of a semidirect product of G_a and G_m.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v2", "updated": "2010-03-12T14:37:29.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "14L30", "14J26", "11D45" ], "keywords": [ "singular del pezzo surfaces", "equivariant compactification", "singular quartic del pezzo surface", "semidirect product", "manins conjecture" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 14, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2009arXiv0910.2717D" } } }