Some loci of rational cubic fourfolds

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Abstract: In this paper we investigate the divisor mathcalC14 inside the moduli space of smooth cubic hypersurfaces in mathbbP5, whose generic element is a smooth cubic containing a smooth quartic scroll. Using the fact that all degenerations of quartic scrolls in mathbbP5 contained in a smooth cubic hypersurface are surfaces with one apparent double point, we conclude that every cubic hypersurface belonging to mathcalC14 is rational. As an application of our results and of the construction of some explicit examples contained in the Appendix, we also prove that the Pfaffian locus is not open in mathcalC14.




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