A variety with non-finitely generated automorphism group

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John Lesieutre , Penn State
Fine Hall 322

If X is a projective variety, then Aut(X)/Aut^0(X) is a countable group, but little is known about what groups can occur. I will construct a projective variety for which this group is not finitely generated, and discuss how the construction can adapted to give an example of a complex projective variety with infinitely many non-isomorphic real forms.