The degeneration of a family of rational surface automorphisms

We consider a one-dimensional family of rational surfaces with automorphisms discussed in (Michigan Math J 56(2):315–330 2008; Indiana Univ Math J 62(4):1143–1164 2013; Algebraic Geometry and Its Applications. Aspects of Mathematics, vol. E25, pp. 39–45 1994). In a degeneration of this family, the limiting map is the identity map on a special fiber. We check that the map on the total space of the family has indeterminacy in the special fiber. However, we show that after blowing-up at an indeterminate curve, there is an induced birational map on the exceptional divisor over the indeterminate curve. Moreover, we show that this map has dynamical degree λ =16 λ = 16 .