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We give some new advances in the research of the maximum number of triangles that we may obtain in a simple arrangements of n lines or pseudo-lines., Comment: 12 pages, 9 figures

This article gives the proof of results announced in [J. Blanc, Finite Abelian subgroups of the Cremona group of the plane, C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris, S\'er. I 344 (2007), 21-26.] and some description of automorphisms of rational surfaces. Given a finite Abelian subgroup of the Cremona group of the plane, we provide a way to decide whether it is birationally conjugate to a group of automorphisms of a minimal surface. In particular, we prove that a finite cyclic group of birational transformations of the plane is linearisable if and only if none of its non-trivial elements fix a curve of positive genus. For finite Abelian groups, there exists only one surprising exception, a group isomorphic to Z/2ZxZ/4Z, whose non-trivial elements do not fix a curve of positive genus but which is not conjugate to a group of automorphisms of a minimal rational surface. We also give some descriptions of automorphisms (not necessarily of finite order) of del Pezzo surfaces and conic bundles., Comment: 41 pages, 2 figures, is a part of the author's PHD whose full text is available at math.AG/0610368. To appear in Groups Geom. Dyn

We study the group of birational transformations of the plane that fix (each point of) a curve of geometric genus 1. A precise description of the finite elements is given; it is shown in particular that the order is at most 6, and that if the group contains a non-trivial torsion, the fixed curve is the image of a smooth cubic by a birational transformation of the plane. We show that for a smooth cubic, the group is generated by its elements of degree 3, and prove that it contains a free product of Z/2Z, indexed by the points of the curve., Comment: 14 pages, no figure

English: We continue the study of G. Castelnuovo on the group of birational transformation of the complex plane that fix each point of a curve of genus >1; we use adjoint linear system of the curve as Castelnuovo does. We prove that these groups are abelian, and that these are either finite, of order 2 or 3, or conjuguate to a subgroup of the de Jonqui\`eres group. We show also that these results do not generalise to curves of genus <=1. ----- French: Nous poursuivons l'\'etude faite par G. Castelnuovo en 1892 au sujet du groupe des transformations birationnelles du plan complexe qui fixent points par points une courbe de genre >1; nous nous servons comme lui des syst\`emes lin\'eaires adjoints de la courbe fixe. Nous d\'emontrons que ces groupes sont ab\'eliens, et qu'ils sont soit finis, d'ordre 2 ou 3, soit conjugu\'es \`a un sous-groupe du groupe de de Jonqui\`eres. Nous montrons \'egalement que ces r\'esultats ne se g\'en\'eralisent pas aux courbes de genre <=1., Comment: 15 pages, no figure, in French

This note presents the study of the conjugacy classes of elements of some given finite order n in the Cremona group of the plane. In particular, it is shown that the number of conjugacy classes is infinite if n is even, n=3 or n=5, and that it is equal to 3 (respectively 9) if n=9 (respectively 15), and is exactly 1 for all remaining odd orders. Some precise representative elements of the classes are given., Comment: 14 pages

This work presents the conjugacy classes of finite abelian subgroups of the Cremona group of the plane. Using a well-known theory, this problem amounts to the study of automorphism groups of some Del Pezzo surfaces and conic bundles. We have thus to enumerate all the cases, which gives a long description, and then to show whether two cases are distinct or not, using some conjugacy invariants. For example, we use the non-rational curves fixed by one element of the group, and the action of the whole group on these curves. From this classification, we deduce a sequence of more general results on birational transformations, as for example the existence of infinitely many conjugacy classes of elements of order n, for any even number n, a result false in the odd case. We prove also that a root of some linear transformation of finite order is itself conjugate to a linear transformation., Comment: PHD Thesis, 189 pages, 34 figures, original text may be found at http://www.unige.ch/cyberdocuments/theses2006/BlancJ/meta.html

We describe the conjugacy classes of affine automorphisms in the group $Aut(n,\K)$ (respectively $Bir(\K^n)$) of automorphisms (respectively of birational maps) of $\K^n$. From this we deduce also the classification of conjugacy classes of automorphisms of $\Pn$ in the Cremona group $Bir(\K^n)$., Comment: 17 pages, no figures

Final version, appeared in C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris 339 (2004), no4, 257--259.