Fano fourfolds having a prime divisor of Picard number 1 (Q6168283)

A Fano variety over \(\mathbb{C}\) is a projective manifold whose anti-canonical divisor is ample. Due to a series of works by Iskovskih and Mori-Mukai, there is a complete classification result for Fano varieties up to dimension 3. However, a full classification of Fano varieties is currently out of reach if the dimension is greater than 3. In the paper under review, the author proves a classification result for smooth complex Fano fourfolds of Picard number 3 having a prime divisor of Picard number 1. Based on a classification result in arbitrary dimension by \textit{C. Casagrande} and \textit{S. Druel} [Int. Math. Res. Not. 2015, No. 21, 10756--10800 (2015; Zbl 1342.14088)], the author shows that such fourfolds form 28 families (see Theorem 1.1). The author computes their numerical invariants, determine the base locus of the anticanonical system and study their deformations to give an upper bound to the dimension of the base of the Kuranishi family of a general member (see Tables 2 and 3).