Double covers of smooth quadric threefolds with Artin-Mumford obstructions to rationality

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Authors Alexandra Kuznetsova

Publication date 19 April 2023

Abstract: We study obstructions to rationality on a nodal Fano threefold $M$ that is a double cover of a smooth quadric threefold branched over an intersection with a quartic threefold in $mathbb{P}^4$. We prove that if $M$ admits an Artin-Mumford obstruction to rationality then it lies in one of three explicitly described families. Moreover, a general element of any of these families admits an Artin-Mumford obstruction to rationality. Only one of these three families was known before; other two families of nodal Fano threefolds with obstructions to rationality are new.

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