On del Pezzo fibrations that are not birationally rigid (Q2909041)

A del Pezzo fibration is a map \(\phi: X \rightarrow S\), where \(X\) is a \(\mathbb Q\)-factorial threefold with at worst terminal singularities, \(S\) is a surface, \(-K_X\) is \(\phi\)-ample, and the Picard numbers of \(X\) and \(S\) satisfy the condition \(\rho(X)=\rho(S)+1\). The property of birational rigidity has been studied for del Pezzo fibrations of degree \(K_L^2\geq 3\), where \(L\) is a generic fibre, and in the smooth case.NEWLINENEWLINEHere, the author introduces a construction which produces del Pezzo fibrations of degree two that are not birationally rigid. Such a threefold \(X\) is defined as a hypersurface in a toric variety \(\mathcal F\) of rank two, which is a weighted bundle over \(\mathbb P^1\). A complete list is given of those \(X\) admitting another Mori fibre space as birational model, such that this second threefold is obtained by restricting the \(2\)-ray game of the ambient variety \(\mathcal F\) to \(X\).NEWLINENEWLINEA very similar result is given also for \(4\)-folds having a cubic surface fibration over \(\mathbb P^2\).