Birational geometry of the intermediate Jacobian fibration of a cubic fourfold (appendix by Claire Voisin) (Q6157237)

Each of the known families of irreducible holomorphic symplectic manifolds, also called hyperkähler manifolds, has attracted detailed attention. The author builds on joint work with Laza and Voisin and studies manifolds of O'Grady-10-type. More precisely, let \(X\subset \mathbb P^5\) be any smooth cubic fourfold and let \(U\subset {\mathbb P^5}^\vee\) be the subset parametrising smooth hyperplane sections of \(X\). She shows that the intermediate jacobian fibrations \(\pi_U\colon J_U \to U\) constructed by Donagi and Markman can be compactified to a Lagrangian fibration \(\pi\colon J \to {\mathbb P^5}^\vee\) on a smooth irreducible holomorphic symplect manifold \(J\). In fact, her techniques are not restricted to this case and, for example, extend to a twisted fibration \(J_U^T\to U\) considered previously by Voisin or to mildly singular fourfolds \(X\). Having clarified the existence of such Lagrangian fibrations, she goes on to study some aspects of the (birational) geometry of \(J\), for example the Mordell-Weil group or for very general \(X\) the movable cone. This enables her to answer questions of Beauville and Voisin on these manifolds and relate to other known constructions of irreducible holomorphic symplectic manifolds of O'Grady-10-type. In an Appendix, Claire Voisin explains the consequences of these results for the Beauville-conjecture on these manifolds.