On the geometry of the automorphism groups of affine varieties
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This article is a survey on ind-varieties and ind-groups introduced by Shafarevich in 1965, with a special emphasis on automorphism groups of affine varieties and actions of ind-groups on ind-varieties. We give precise definitions and complete proofs, including several known results. The survey contains many examples and also some questions which came up during our work on the subject. Among the new results we show that for an affine variety X the automorphism group Aut(X) is always locally closed in the ind-semigroup End(X) of all endomorphisms, and we give an example of a strict closed subgroup of a connected ind-group which has the same Lie algebra, based on the work of Shestakov-Umirbaev on the existence of non-tame automorphisms of affine 3-space.
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