Automorphisms of odd dimensional $(2,2)$-complete intersections in characteristic $2$
Yang Zhang
TL;DR
The paper classifies the automorphism scheme of generic odd-dimensional $(2,2)$-complete intersections in characteristic $2$, showing the nontrivial identity component is unique to this non-hypersurface case (besides quadrics and genus $1$ curves). It reduces the problem to a Pfaffian analysis of pencils of quadrics and obtains a concrete decomposition $ ext{Aut}_X\cong \text{Aut}^0_X\rtimes \pi_0(\text{Aut}_X)$, with $ ext{Aut}^0_X\cong \mu_2^{M}$ for $M\ge 2$ and $\,\pi_0(\text{Aut}_X)\cong (\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z})^{M+1}$ generically. A central result is the exact sequence $1\to (\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z})^{M+1}\to \pi_0(\text{Aut}_X)\to \text{Aut}(P^1;\varphi(Z))\to 1$, with the latter group typically trivial, yielding a complete arithmetic description of the automorphism structure. The findings advance moduli considerations for this class and provide explicit criteria for lifting automorphisms from the base to the full automorphism group, along with constructive examples.
Abstract
We compute the automorphism scheme of a generic odd dimensional $(2,2)$-complete intersection in characteristic $2$. This is the only case for complete intersections having a non-trivial identity component in automorphism schemes apart from quadric hypersurfaces and genus $1$ curves.
