Geometry of Lines on a Cubic Four-Fold

Abstract: For a general cubic fourfold

X s u b s e t m a t h b b P^{5}

with Fano scheme of lines

F

, we prove a number of properties of the universal family of lines

I o F

and various subloci. We first describe the moduli and ramification theory of the genus four fibration

p : I o X

and explore its relation to a birational model of

F

in

I

. The main part of the paper is devoted to describing the locus

V s u b s e t F

of triple lines, i.e., the fixed locus of the Voisin map

p h i : F d a s h r i g h t a r r o w F

, in particular proving it is an irreducible projective singular surface of class

21 m a t h r m c_{2} (m a t h c a l U_{F})

and detailing its intersection with the locus

S

of second type lines. A consequence of the analysis of the singularities of

V

is a geometric proof of the fact that if

X

is very general, then the number of singular (necessarily 1-nodal) rational curves in

F

of primitive class is 3780.

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