Nonrational nodal quartic threefolds

DOI10.2140/PJM.2006.226.65zbMATH Open1123.14010arXivmath/0405150OpenAlexW2567741933MaRDI QIDQ997134FDOQ997134

Authors: I. A. Cheltsov 

Publication date: 20 July 2007

Published in: Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The $mathbbQ$-factoriality of a nodal quartic 3-fold implies its non-rationality. We prove that a nodal quartic 3-fold with at most 8 nodes is $mathbbQ$-factorial, and we show that a nodal quartic 3-fold with 9 nodes is not $mathbbQ$-factorial if and only if it contains a plane. However, there are non-rational non-$mathbbQ$-factorial nodal quartic 3-folds in $mathbb{P}^4$. In particular, we prove the non-rationality of a general non-$mathbbQ$-factorial nodal quartic 3-fold that contains either a plane or a smooth del Pezzo surface of degree 4.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0405150

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zbMATH Keywords

del Pezzo surfaceFano variety\(\mathbb Q\)-factorialquartic threefoldnodal variety

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fano varieties (14J45) Rationality questions in algebraic geometry (14E08) Rational and unirational varieties (14M20) (3)-folds (14J30)

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• On maximally non-factorial nodal Fano threefolds
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