On the Fano variety of linear spaces contained in two odd-dimensional quadrics (Q2402862)

Set \(n=2m\), and let \(Z^{(n)}\) be a smooth complete intersection of two quadrics hypersurfaces \(\mathcal Q^1\) and \(\mathcal Q^2\) in \(\mathbb P^{n+2}\). The set of linear subspaces of maximal dimension (i.e. of dimension \(m\)) contained in \(Z^{(n)}\) is a finite set of cardinality \(2^{n+2}\), while the linear subspaces of dimension \(m-1\) are parametrized by a smooth Fano variety \(G^{(n)}\) of dimension \(n\), which is a subvariety of the Grassmannian \(\mathbb G(m-1, \mathbb P^{n+2})\). The paper under review contains a thorough study of the (very rich and interesting) geometry of \(G^{(n)}\), for any \(n\), the case \(n=2\) being classically known. In particular the authors provide a detailed description of the cones of nef, movable and effective divisors of \(G^{(n)}\) (and their dual cones), as well as of the group \(\text{Aut}(G^{(n)})\). In a previous paper [Math. Z. 280, 3--4, 3--4 (2015; 1327.14190)] the second author showed that \(G^{(n)}\) is isomorphic to the moduli space of rank two quasiparabolic vector bundles on \(\mathbb P^1\) marked at \(n+3\) distinct points, of degree zero and weights \((1/2, \dots, 1/2)\). On the other hand this moduli space is known to be isomorphic in codimension one to the variety \(X^{(n)}\), constructed by blowing up \(\mathbb P^n\) along \(n+3\) points in general linear position. In the paper under review the authors describe explicitly the birational maps from \(G^{(n)}\) to \(\mathbb P^n\) which induce an isomorphism in codimension one between \(G^{(n)}\) and \(X^{(n)}\). It turns out that, up to automorphisms of \(\mathbb P^n\), these birational maps are parametrized by the \(2^{n+2}\) linear subspaces of \(Z^{(n)}\) of dimension \(m\).