Cylinders in Mori fiber spaces: forms of the quintic del Pezzo threefold

DOI10.5802/AIF.3297MaRDI QIDQ2333207zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Adrien Dubouloz, Takashi Kishimoto

Publication date 12 November 2019

Published in Annales de l’institut Fourier (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.05679

zbMATH Keywords

cylindres fibrations de Mori involutions de Cremona liens de Sarkisov volumes de Fano

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal model program (Mori theory, extremal rays) (14E30) (3)-folds (14J30) Fano varieties (14J45) Affine spaces (automorphisms, embeddings, exotic structures, cancellation problem) (14R10) Affine fibrations (14R25)

Abstract: Motivated by the general question of existence of open A1-cylinders in higher dimensional pro-jective varieties, we consider the case of Mori Fiber Spaces of relative dimension three, whose general closed fibers are isomorphic to the quintic del Pezzo threefold V5 , the smooth Fano threefold of index two and degree five. We show that the total spaces of these Mori Fiber Spaces always contain relative A2-cylinders, and we characterize those admitting relative A3-cylinders in terms of the existence of certain special lines in their generic fibers.

Review text

An \({\mathbb A}^r_{k}\)-cylinder in a normal algebraic variety (defined over \(k\)) is a Zariski open subset \(U\) isomorphic to a product \(Z \times {\mathbb A}^r_{k}\) of some algebraic variety \(Z\) and the \(k\)-affine space od dimension \(r\). It is of interest, see the Introduction of the paper under review, to study closed normal projective varieties containing cylinders, and, since the canonical bundle of \(V\) containing a cylinder is not pseudoeffective, total spaces of Mori Fiber Spaces are a class of varieties where examples of such kind can be found. In this context, it sounds natural to study fibrations containing vertical cylinders, i.e, compatible with the fibration structure. In the paper under review the authors start the study of vertical cylinders in a Mori fiber space \(f:X \to Y\) of relative dimension \(3\). There are four classes of Fano \(3\)-folds of Picard number one containing an \({\mathbb A}^3_{\overline{k}}\)-cylinder: the projective space, the quadric, the del Pezzo quintic threefold \(V_5\) of index two and degree five, and a four dimensional family of prime Fano threefolds \(V_{22}\) of genus twelve. To contain a vertical cylinder is equivalent to the fact that the fiber over the generic point of the target \(Y\) contains a \({\mathbb A}^r_K\) cylinder, where \(K\) is the function field of \(Y\). The main result of the paper states that if \(V\) is a \(K\)-form of \(V_5\), that is a smooth projective variety defined over \(K\) whose base extensions to an algebraic closure \(\overline{K}\) is isomorphic (over \(\overline{K}\)) to \(V_5\), then \(V\) always contains an \({\mathbb A}^2_K\)-cylinder, and it is characterized when it contains a \(3\)-cylinder. As a consequence (over \(\overline{k}\)) when \(V_5\) is the general closed fiber of a Mori Fiber Space \(f:X \to C\) over a curve, then \(X\) contains a vertical \({\mathbb A}^3_{\overline{k}}\)-cylinder with respect to \(f\).

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