Automorphisms of blowups of threefolds being Fano or having Picard number $1$

Tuyen Trung Truong

Published 2015-01-07Version 1

Let $X_0$ be a smooth projective threefold which is Fano or which has Picard number $1$. Let $\pi :X\rightarrow X_0$ be a finite composition of blowups along smooth centers. We show that for "almost all" of such $X$, if $f\in Aut(X)$ then its first and second dynamical degrees are the same. We also construct many examples of finite blowups $X\rightarrow X_0$, on which any automorphism is of zero entropy. The main idea is that because of the log-concavity of dynamical systems and the invariance of Chern classes under holomorphic automorphisms, there are some constraints on the nef cohomology classes. We will also discuss a possible application of these results to a threefold constructed by Kenji Ueno.