We study a double solid X branched along a nodal sextic surface in a projective space and the 2-torsion subgroup in the third integer cohomology group of a resolution of singularities of X. This group can be considered as an obstruction to rationality of X. Studying this group we conclude that all sextic double solids admitting non-trivial obstructions to rationality are branched along determinantal surfaces of very specific type and we provide an explicit list of them.
Let $X$ be a double cover of $\mathbb P^3$ branched along a sextic surface $Y$. In this paper, we show that, for general $X$, the Abel-Jacobi map associated to the normalization $\tilde F(X)$ of the surface $F(X)$ of curves contained in $X$ which are preimages of lines bitangent to $Y$, gives an isogeny between the Albanese variety of $\tilde F(X)$ and the intermediate Jacobian of $X$.
We give necessary and sufficient conditions for unirationality and rationality of Fano threefolds of geometric Picard rank-1 over an arbitrary field of zero characteristic.
A Fano-Enriques threefold is a three-dimensional non-Gorenstein Fano variety of index 1 with at most canonical singularities. We study the birational geometry of Fano-Enriques threefolds with terminal cyclic quotient singularities. We investigate their rationality, and also provide an example of a Fano-Enriques threefold, whose pliability is 9, i.e. a Fano-Enriques threefold birationally equivalent to exactly 9 Mori fibre spaces in Sarkisov category.
We classify some special classes of non-rational Fano threefolds with terminal singularities. In particular, all such hyperelliptic and trigonal varieties are found.
We construct two small resolutions of singularities of the Coble fourfold (the double cover of the four-dimensional projective space branched over the Igusa quartic). We use them to show that all $S_6$-invariant three-dimensional quartics are birational to conic bundles over the quintic del Pezzo surface with the discriminant curves from the Wiman-Edge pencil. As an application, we check that $S_6$-invariant three-dimensional quartics are unirational, obtain new proofs of rationality of four special quartics among them and irrationality of the others, and describe their Weil divisor class grou…
We prove rationality criteria over algebraically non-closed fields of characteristic $0$ for five out of six types of geometrically rational Fano threefolds of Picard number $1$ and geometric Picard number bigger than $1$. For the last type of such threefolds we provide a unirationality criterion and prove stable non-rationality under additional assumptions.
We classify nonrational Fano threefolds $X$ with terminal Gorenstein singularities such that $\mathrm{\rk}\, \mathrm{\Pic}(X)=1$, $(-K_X)^3\ge 8$, and $\mathrm{\rk}\, \mathrm{\Cl}(X)\le 2$.
We construct $S$-linear semiorthogonal decompositions of derived categories of smooth Fano threefold fibrations $X/S$ with relative Picard rank $1$ and rational geometric fibers and discuss how the structure of components of these decompositions is related to rationality properties of $X/S$.
Conic bundle threefolds differing by a constant Brauer class and connections to rationality
Rice University(莱斯大学);University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign(伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校);Utrecht University(乌得勒支大学);University of Washington(华盛顿大学);Brown University(布朗大学)
We discuss birational properties of Mukai varieties, i.e., of higher-dimensional analogues of prime Fano threefolds of genus $g \in \{7,8,9,10\}$ over an arbitrary field $\mathsf{k}$ of zero characteristic. In the case of dimension $n \ge 4$ we prove that these varieties are $\mathsf{k}$-rational if and only if they have a $\mathsf{k}$-point except for the case of genus $9$, where we assume $n \ge 5$. Furthermore, we prove that Mukai varieties of genus $g \in \{7,8,9,10\}$ and dimension $n \ge 5$ contain cylinders if they have a $\mathsf{k}$-point. Finally, we prove that the embedding $X \hook…
Instituto de Matemática, Estatística e Computação Científica (IMECC) da Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp)(坎皮纳斯州立大学数学、统计和科学计算研究所);Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences(保加利亚科学院数学与信息学研究所);Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook University(石溪大学西蒙斯几何与物理中心);International Center for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS)(国际数学科学中心);Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques(高等科学研究所)
Let $W\subset \mathbb{P}^{13}$ be the image of the rational map defined by the linear system of the sextic surfaces of $\mathbb{P}^3$ having double points along the edges of a tetrahedron. Let $\mathcal{L}$ be the linear system of the hyperplane sections of $W$. It is known that a general $S\in \mathcal{L}$ is an Enriques surface. The aim of this paper is to study the sublinear system $\mathcal{L}_{\bullet}\subset \mathcal{L}$ of the hyperplane sections of $W$ having a triple point at a general point $w \in W$. We will show that a general element of $\mathcal{L}_{\bullet}$ is birational to an …
We construct a $15$-dimensional affine variety $Π_{\mathbb{A}}^{15}$ with a ${\rm GL}_{2}$- and $(\mathbb{C}^{*})^{4}$-actions. We denote by $Π_{\mathbb{A}}^{14}$ the affine variety obtained from $Π_{\mathbb{A}}^{15}$ by setting one specified variable to $1$ (we refer the precise definition to Definition 1.1 of the paper). Let $Π_{\mathbb{P}}^{13}$ be several weighted projectivizations of $Π_{\mathbb{A}}^{14}$, and $Π_{\mathbb{P}}^{14}$ the weighted cone over $Π_{\mathbb{P}}^{13}$ with a weight one coordinate added. We show that $Π_{\mathbb{P}}^{13}$ or $Π_{\mathbb{P}}^{14}$ produce, as weight…