Elliptic curve configurations on Fano surfaces

DOI10.1007/S00229-009-0264-5MaRDI QIDQ2391150zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Xavier Roulleau

Publication date 24 July 2009

Published in Manuscripta Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0804.1861

zbMATH Keywords

cotangent sheafcubic threefoldsurfaces of general type

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Surfaces of general type (14J29) Fano varieties (14J45) Automorphisms of surfaces and higher-dimensional varieties (14J50) Hypersurfaces and algebraic geometry (14J70) Period matrices, variation of Hodge structure; degenerations (32G20)

Abstract: The elliptic curves on a surface of general type constitute an obstruction for the cotangent sheaf to be ample. In this paper, we give the classification of the configurations of the elliptic curves on the Fano surface of a smooth cubic threefold. That means that we give the number of such curves, their intersections and a plane model. This classification is linked to the classification of the automorphism groups of theses surfaces.

Review text

A Fano surface is the Hilbert scheme of lines of a smooth cubic threefold of \(\mathbb P^4\). It is a smooth surface of general type with irregularity \(5\) and globally generated cotangent sheaf. The author studied [Geom. Dedicata 142, 151--171 (2009; Zbl 1180.14041)] the cotangent map of these surfaces. In this paper he investigates the elliptic curves contained in a Fano surface. The elliptic curves in a surface of general type are an obstruction for the ampleness of the cotangent sheaf, and in the case of Fano surfaces these curves are proved here to be the only obstruction. All the possible configurations of such curves are classified, i.e. their intersection matrix and a plane model of any of them are determined. Moreover, the author constructs a subgroup of the automorphism group of the surface which classifies completely these configurations. The number of such curves is related to the Picard number. These results, as the author notes in the Introduction, imply that the ampleness of the cotangent bundle, and the geometric properties of the cotangent map, vary non-trivially in the moduli space of Fano surfaces. Eventually the author applies is knowledge of Fano surfaces to construct a cubic threefold whose intermediate Jacobian is isomorphic -- as a polarized abelian variety -- to a product of elliptic curves.

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