Measures of irrationality of the Fano surface of a cubic threefold

DOI10.1090/TRAN/7565zbMATH Open1468.14088arXiv1707.00853OpenAlexW2963947423WikidataQ130079012 ScholiaQ130079012MaRDI QIDQ4633773FDOQ4633773

Authors: Frank Gounelas, Alexis Kouvidakis 

Publication date: 6 May 2019

Published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For $X$ a smooth cubic threefold we study the Pl"ucker embedding of the Fano surface of lines $S$ of $X$. We prove that if $X$ is general then the minimal gonality of a covering family of curves of $S$ is four and that this happens for a unique family of curves. The analysis also shows that there is a unique pentagonal connecting family of curves, which leads to the fact that the connecting gonality of $S$ is five whereas the degree of irrationality, i.e. the minimal degree of a rational map from $S$ to $mathbb{P}^2$, is six.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.00853

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zbMATH Keywords

cubic threefolddegree of irrationalitycovering gonalityFano scheme of lines

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fano varieties (14J45) Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) Rationality questions in algebraic geometry (14E08) Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10) Rational and unirational varieties (14M20) (3)-folds (14J30) Configurations and arrangements of linear subspaces (14N20)

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