Cylinders in del Pezzo fibrations

Minimal model program (Mori theory, extremal rays) (14E30) Rational and ruled surfaces (14J26) Fano varieties (14J45) Affine spaces (automorphisms, embeddings, exotic structures, cancellation problem) (14R10) Affine fibrations (14R25)

Abstract: We show that a del Pezzo fibration

p i

: V

i g h t a r r o w

W of degre d contains a vertical open cylinder, that is, an open subset whose intersection with the generic fiber of

p i

is isomorphic to

Z i m e s m a t h b b A_{K}^{1}

for some quasi-projective variety Z defined over the function field K of W , if and only if d

g e

5 and

p i

: V

i g h t a r r o w

W admits a rational section. We also construct twisted cylinders in total spaces of threefold del Pezzo fibrations

p i

: V

i g h t a r r o w

P 1 of degree d

l e

4.

Review text

A cylinder in a normal algebraic variety~\(X\) defined over a field~\(\Bbbk\) is a Zariski open subset \(U\subset X\) of the form \(Z\times\mathbb{A}^1_\Bbbk\). Given a morphism \(f\colon X\to Y\), a cylinder \(U\subset X\) is vertical if \(f|_U\) factors through the projection \(Z\times\mathbb{A}^1_\Bbbk\to Z\). The authors show that a del Pezzo fibration \(\pi\colon V\to W\) over \(\mathbb{C}\) admits a vertical cylinder if and only if its degree \(\deg(V/W)\ge5\) (i.e., the degree of a generic fiber) and \(\pi\) has a rational section. (Although it is not clear from the statement, a further assumption used in the proof seems to be that the Picard number of the generic fiber over the function field \(\mathbb{C}(W)\) is assumed to be \(1\).) Then, lifting the verticality requirement, they construct examples of del Pezzo fibrations \(\pi\colon V\to\mathbb{P}^1\) of any degree \(d\le4\) containing \(\mathbb{A}^3_\mathbb{C}\) (which is obviously a cylinder, but no longer vertical).

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