Double quadrics with large automorphism groups

DOI10.1134/S0081543816060109MaRDI QIDQ511449zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Constantin Shramov, V. V. Przyjalkowski

Publication date 15 February 2017

Published in Proceedings of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.00307

zbMATH Keywords

coversdoubleFano varietiesquadricssimple group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fano varieties (14J45) Automorphisms of surfaces and higher-dimensional varieties (14J50)

Abstract: We classify three-dimensional nodal Fano varieties that are double covers of smooth quadrics branched over intersections with quartics acted on by finite simple non-abelian groups, and study their rationality.

Review text

A threefold \(X\) defined over the complex numbers is called a double quadric if it is the double cover of an irreducible quadric \(Y\subset \mathbb{P}^3\) ramified over the intersection of \(Y\) with a quintic hypersurface \(Z\subset \mathbb{P}^3\). The general such \(X\) is a Fano variety of Picard number 1, index 1 and anticanonical degree 4. In this paper the authors classify double quadrics whose automorphism group contains a finite non-abelian simple group. The main results are the following. {\parindent=0.6cm\begin{itemize}\item[1.] Let G be a finite simple non-abelian group. Suppose that G acts by automorphisms of a threefold X that is a double cover of an irreducible quadric branched over an intersection with a quartic. Then either \(G=A_6\) or \(G = A_5\). In the former case the variety X is unique, its singularities are isolated ordinary double points, and X is non-rational. \item[2.] There exists a two parameter family \(X_{s,t}\), \(s, t \in \mathbb{C}\), of threefolds and a threefold \(X_{\mathrm{irr}}\) such that \(X_{s,t}\) and \(X_{\mathrm{irr}}\) are acted on by the icosahedral group \(A_5\) and the following assertions hold: {\parindent=0.8cm\begin{itemize}\item[2.1] Suppose that the group \(A_5\) acts by automorphisms of a threefold X that is a double cover of a smooth quadric branched over an intersection with a quartic. Suppose also that X has at most isolated singularities. Then either there is an \(A_5\)-equivariant isomorphism \(X \cong X_{s,t}\) for some \(s,t \in \mathbb{C}\), or there is an \(A_5\)-equivariant isomorphism \(X\cong X_{\mathrm{irr}}\). \item[2.2] The varieties \(X_{s,t}\) are non-rational up to a finite number of possible exceptions. \item[2.3] A very general variety \(X_{s,t}\) is not stably rational. \item[2.4] The variety \(X_{\mathrm{irr}}\) is non-rational. \end{itemize}} \end{itemize}}

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