Varieties of lines on Fermat hypersurfaces (Q2906441)

Let \(X\) be a hypersurface in the projective space \(\mathbb{P}^{n+1}\) and \(\mathrm{Gr}(n+1, 1)\) be the Grassmannian of lines in \(\mathbb{P}^{n+1}\). Associated to \(X\), there is a subvariety \(F(X)\) of \(\mathrm{Gr}(n+1, 1)\) consisting of lines contained in \(X\). The variety \(F(X)\) is called the Fano variety of \(X\).NEWLINENEWLINEIn the paper under review, the author studies Fano varieties of Fermat hypersurfaces of degree \(d\leq n\) in \(\mathbb{P}^{n+1}\). Denote the coordinate hyperplanes of \(\mathbb{P}^{n+1}\) by \(H_0, H_1, \dots, H_{n+1}\). The author defines an open subset \(F^0(X)=\{l\in F(X)\mid l\cap H_0, \dots, l\cap H_{n+1} \text{~ are distinct}\}\) of the Fano variety \(F(X)\). Let \(\mu_d\) be the group of \(d\)-th roots of the unity and \(G=\mu_d^{n+2}/\Delta\), where \(\Delta\) is the diagonal subgroup. In the case that \(d=n\), the author shows that \(F^0(X)\to \mathcal{M}_{0, n+2}\) is an etále \(G\)-covering, where \(\mathcal{M}_{0, n+2}\) is the moduli space of rational curves with \(n+2\) distinct marked points. As a generalization, assuming that \(k=n-d\geq 0\), the author shows that the subvariety \(F^0(X)\) is isomorphic to the quotient variety \(\mathcal{F}/\mathfrak{G}_k\times \mathrm{PGL}(2)\), where \(\mathcal{F}\) is a variety obtained from the open subset \(\widetilde{\mathcal{M}_{0, n+2}}=\{(p_0, \dots, p_{n+1})\in (\mathbb{P}^1)^{n+2}\mid p_i\neq p_j \text{~ for any~} 0\leq i\neq j\leq n+1\}\) by Kummer coverings and other techniques. More precisely, the variety \(\mathcal{F}\) is a finite etále \(G\)-covering of the product variety \(\widetilde{\mathcal{U}}^k\), where \(\widetilde{\mathcal{U}}\) is the universal rational curve over \(\widetilde{\mathcal{M}_{0, n+2}}\). Some interesting applications of the main theorems are also presented in the paper.NEWLINENEWLINEFor the entire collection see [Zbl 1242.14003].