Birational morphisms f: X $ to$ Y of nonsingular surfaces are studied first. Properties of the surfaces X and Y are shown to be related to certain numerical data extracted from the configuration of "missing curves" of f, that is, the curves in Y whose generic point is not in f (X). These results are then applied to the problem of decomposing birational endomorphisms of the plane into a succession of irreducible ones. / A graph-theoretic machinery is developed to keep track of the desingularization of the divisors at infinity of the plane. That machinery is then used to investigate the problem of classifying all birational endomorphisms of the plane, and a complete classification is given in the case of two fundamental points.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.75337 |
| Date | January 1987 |
| Creators | Daigle, Daniel. |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Doctor of Philosophy (Department of Mathematics and Statistics.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 000417688, proquestno: AAINL38132, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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