Explicit examples of rational and Calabi-Yau threefolds with primitive automorphisms of positive entropy

Keiji Oguiso and Tuyen Trung Truong

Abstract: We present the first explicit examples of a rational threefold and a Calabi-Yau threefold, admitting biregular automorphisms of positive entropy not preserving any dominant rational maps to lower positive dimensional varieties. The most crucial part is the rationality of the quotient threefold of a $3$-dimensional torus of product type.

ArXiv: 1306.1590