Birationally rigid singular Fano hypersurfaces (Q1407369)

Let \(V\) be a Fano hypersurface of degree \(M\) in \({\mathbb P}^{M}\) with \(M \geq 5\). In the paper under review the author considers a class of singular Fano hypersurfaces which are regular, where by regular the author means the following. Let \(V\) be defined by an equation \(f=0\) and let \(x\in V\). One can assume that in an affine open set of \({\mathbb P}^{M}\) the point \(x\) has coordinates \(x=(0, \dots, 0)\) and in such an affine set \(f= q_0+\dots +q_M\), where \(q_i\) are homogeneous polynomials of degree \(i\). If \(x\in V\) is a smooth point then \(x\) is said to be regular if \(q_1, \dots , q_M\), form a regular sequence in \(\mathcal {O}_{x,{\mathbb P}^{M}}\). If \(x\in V\) is a singular point then \(x\) is said to be regular if the quadric \(\{q_2=0\}\) is smooth (that is \(x\) is a non-degenerate double point) and if \(q_2, \dots , q_M\), form a regular sequence in \(\mathcal {O}_{x,{\mathbb P}^{M}}\). The hypersurface \(V\) is said to be regular if all of its points are regular. The main result in the paper under review is that a general Fano hypersurface \(V\) of degree \(M\) in \({\mathbb P}^{M}\), \(M \geq 5\) with at least one singular point which is a non-degenerate double point, is birationally superrigid [see \textit{A. V. Pukhlikov}, Invent. Math. 134, No.2, 401-426 (1998; Zbl 0964.14011), for definition of birationally superrigid]. In particular \(V\) cannot be fibered into uniruled varieties by a non-trivial rational map.