Wednesday, 19 May 2010

ag.algebraic geometry - Are automorphism groups of hypersurfaces reduced ?

In the following article : "H. Matsumura, P. Monsky, On the automorphisms of hypersurfaces, J. Math. Kyoto Univ. 3 (1964) 347-361", it is shown that in finite characteristic, automorphism groups of smooth hypersurfaces of mathbbPN are finite (with known exceptions such as quadrics, elliptic curves, K3 surfaces). However, the question of their reducedness is left open. Does anyone know something about it ?



In fact, we need to show that H0(X,TX)=0. In characteristic 0, you can use Bott's theorem to do that. What can you do in finite characteristic ?

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