Rationality Proofs by Curve Counting

DOI10.1080/10586458.2019.1691088zbMATH Open1495.14025arXiv1705.02931OpenAlexW2990167860WikidataQ113850292 ScholiaQ113850292MaRDI QIDQ5866497FDOQ5866497

Authors: Anton Mellit 

Publication date: 22 September 2022

Published in: Experimental Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

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.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

rationalitycounting rational curvesUeno-Campana varieties

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rationality questions in algebraic geometry (14E08)

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Cited In (3)

• On the unirationality of higher dimensional Ueno-type manifolds
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• RATIONALITY PROPERTIES OF MANIFOLDS CONTAINING QUASI-LINES

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• SageMath
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