Borel subgroups of the automorphism groups of affine toric surfaces

Abstract

In [I. Arzhantsev and M. Zaidenberg, Acyclic curves and group actions on affine toric surfaces. Affine Algebraic Geometry, 1--41. World Scientific Publishing Co. 2013] we described the automorphism groups of the cyclic quotients of the affine plane. In this article, we study the Borel subgroups and, more generally, the maximal solvable subgroups of these ind-groups. We show that the cyclic quotients of the affine plane are divided into two species. In one of them, the Borel subgroups form a single conjugacy class, while in the other, there are two conjugacy classes of Borel subgroups. The proofs explore the Bass-Serre-Tits theory of groups acting on trees.