Examples of cylindrical Fano fourfolds (Q253167)

A quasi-projective algebraic variety is called \textit{cylindrical} if it contains a Zariski dense open subset of the form \(Z\times\mathbb{A}^{1}\) for some quasi-projective variety \(Z\). The existence of such cylinders in smooth projective varieties is intimately related to that of algebraic actions of the additive group \(\mathbb{G}_{a}\) on their affine cones. In the article under review, the authors describe the construction of families of cylindrical Fano fourfolds of Picard rank \(1\) via explicit Sarkisov links. These include smooth intersections of two quadrics in \(\mathbb{P}^{6}\), del Pezzo fourfolds of degree \(5\), and positive dimensional moduli of Mukai fourfolds of genus \(7\) and \(8\).