On Fano manifolds of Picard number one

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Abstract: K{"u}chle classified the Fano fourfolds that can be obtained as zero loci of global sections of homogeneous vector bundles on Grassmannians. Surprisingly, his classification exhibits two families of fourfolds with the same discrete invariants. Kuznetsov asked whether these two types of fourfolds are deformation equivalent. We show that the answer is positive in a very strong sense, since the two families are in fact the same! This phenomenon happens in higher dimension as well.


Denote by \(G_n\) the Grassmannian parameterizing \(2\)-dimensional subspaces in a vector space \(V_{n+2}\) of dimension \(n+2\). It is a Fano manifold of index \(n+2\). There are two naturally families of Fano manifolds of Picard number \(1\) defined in the folllowing. The first family is obtained by taking \(n+2\) linear sections of \(\mathcal{O}(1)\) of the Plücker embedding of \(G_{n+1}\). The second family is obtained by taking the zero locus of a general section of \(Q(1)\), where \(Q\) is the universal quotient bundle of rank \(n\) on \(G_{n}\). Note that \(\det Q(1) \cong \mathcal{O}(n+1)\). The main result of the article is that general members of the two families are the same.











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