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Author(s): James K. Deveney; David R. Finston
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 128 (2000), 31-38.
MSC (1991): Primary 14L30; Secondary 20G20
Posted: July 27, 1999
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Abstract: It has been conjectured that every free algebraic action of the additive group of complex numbers on complex affine three space is conjugate to a global translation. The main result lends support to this conjecture by showing that the morphism to the variety defined by the ring of invariants of the associated action on the coordinate ring is smooth. As a consequence, the graph morphism is an open immersion, and simple proofs of certain cases of the conjecture are obtained.

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James K. Deveney
Affiliation: Department of Mathematical Sciences, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1015 W. Main St., Richmond, Virginia 23284
Email: jdeveney@atlas.vcu.edu

David R. Finston
Affiliation: Department of Mathematical Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003
Email: dfinston@nmsu.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-99-05412-X
PII: S 0002-9939(99)05412-X
Posted: July 27, 1999
Additional Notes: The second author was supported in part by NSA Grant MDA904-96-1-0069.
Communicated by: Ron Donagi
Copyright of article: Copyright 1999, American Mathematical Society

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