Regularizations of positive entropy pseudo-automorphisms

Abstract

We study positive entropy birational automorphisms of threefolds. We identify some conditions which imply that such an automorphism is non-regularizable. We show that this criterion applies in the example of a positive entropy birational automorphism of $\mathbb{P}^3$ constructed by J. Blanc, thus showing that for a general choice of parameters it is non-regularizable. Additionally, we establish a criterion which proves that the automorphism in this example does not preserve a structure of a fibration over a surface.