Rationality Proofs by Curve Counting

DOI10.1080/10586458.2019.1691088MaRDI QIDQ5866497zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Anton Mellit

Publication date 22 September 2022

Published in Experimental Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.02931

zbMATH Keywords

rationalitycounting rational curvesUeno-Campana varieties

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rationality questions in algebraic geometry (14E08)

Abstract: We propose an approach for showing rationality of an algebraic variety $X$. We try to cover $X$ by rational curves of certain type and count how many curves pass through a generic point. If the answer is $1$, then we can sometimes reduce the question of rationality of $X$ to the question of rationality of a closed subvariety of $X$. This approach is applied to the case of the so-called Ueno-Campana manifolds. Our experiments indicate that the previously open cases $X_{4,6}$ and $X_{5,6}$ are both rational. However, this result is not rigorously justified and depends on a heuristic argument and a Monte Carlo type computer simulation. In an unexpected twist, existence of lattices $D_6$, $E_8$ and $Lambd{a}_{10}$ turns out to be crucial.

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