Planes in cubic fourfolds

DOI10.14231/AG-2023-007MaRDI QIDQ5879020zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors John Christian Ottem, Alex Degtyarev, Ilia Itenberg

Publication date 23 February 2023

Published in Algebraic Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.13951

zbMATH Keywords

2-planescubic fourfolddiscriminant formintegral latticeNiemeier lattice

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(4)-folds (14J35) Hypersurfaces and algebraic geometry (14J70) Enumerative problems (combinatorial problems) in algebraic geometry (14N10) Configurations and arrangements of linear subspaces (14N20) Varieties of low degree (14N25) Topology of real algebraic varieties (14P25)

Abstract: We show that the maximal number of planes in a complex smooth cubic fourfold in ${mathbbP}^5$ is $405$, realized by the Fermat cubic only; the maximal number of real planes in a real smooth cubic fourfold is $357$, realized by the so-called Clebsch--Segre cubic. Altogether, there are but three (up to projective equivalence) cubics with more than $350$ planes.

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