On Fano schemes of linear spaces of general complete intersections (Q2216785)

Let \(F_k(X)\subset \mathbb G(k, n)\) the \textit{Fano scheme} parameterizing \(k\)-dimensional linear subspaces contained in a variety \(X \subset \mathbb P^n\). The paper under review concerns the case in which \(X\) is a complete intersection of multi-degree \(\mathbf d := (d_1 ,\dotsc , d_s )\), with \(1\le s \le n - 2\) and \(\prod_{i=1}^s d_i\ge 2\) and the main result of it extends a recent result by Riedl and Yang on the case of hypersurfaces (see [\textit{E. Riedl} and \textit{D. Yang}, J. Differ. Geom. 116, No. 2, 393--403 (2020; Zbl 1448.14042)], Theorem 3.3) which asserts that a very general hypersurface \(X\subset \mathbb P^n\) of degree \(d\) such that \(n \le \frac{(d+1)(d+2)}{6}\), then \(F_1 (X)\) contains no rational curves. The result is the following (Theorem 1.2): Let \(X \subset \mathbb P^n\) be a very general complete intersection of multi-degree \(\mathbf d := (d_1 ,\dotsc , d_s )\), with \(1\le s \le n - 2\) and \(\prod_{i=1}^s d_i> 2\). Let \(1\le k\le n - s - 1\) be an integer. If \[n\le k-1+\frac{1}{k+2}\sum_{i=1}^s\binom{d_i+k+1}{k-1},\] then \(F_k (X)\) contains neither rational nor elliptic curves. Moreover, in Section 4, Theorem 4.1, the case of the quadrics -- i.e. \(\prod_{i=1}^s d_i= 2\) -- is considered, obtaining that \(F_k(X)\) is empty if \(k>\lfloor\frac{n-s}{2} \rfloor\) and if \(k\le \lfloor\frac{n-s}{2} \rfloor\) then \(F_k(X)\) has one or two components, which are rationally connected.