Some remarks on morphisms between Fano threefolds

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Abstract: Let X, Y be Fano threefolds of Picard number one and such that the ample generators of Picard groups are very ample. Let X be of index one and Y be of index two. It is shown that the only morphisms from X to Y are double coverings. In fact nearly the whole paper is the analysis of the case where Y is the linear section of the Grassmannian G(1,4), since the other cases were more or less solved in another article. This remaining case is treated with the help of Debarre's connectedness theorem for inverse images of Schubert cycles.


Let \(X\) be a smooth complex Fano threefold of index 1 such that \(\text{Pic}(X) = {\mathbb Z}\) and assume that \(X\) is anticanonically embedded. Let \(V_{5} = G(1,4)\cap H_{1}\cap H_{2}\cap H_{3}\) be the smooth three-dimensional linear section of the Grassmannian \(G(1,4)\) in the Plücker embedding. In this paper the author proves that any non trivial morphism \(f: X \to V_{5}\) is a double covering. \noindent This result is part of a general study on the morphisms between Fano threefolds [see \textit{E. Amerik}, Doc. Math., J. DMV 2, 195--211 (1997; Zbl 0922.14007)]. The proof is based on the study of the lines on \(V_{5}\) with normal bundle \(O(-1)\oplus O(1)\) and it uses a connectedness theorem (due to Debarre) for the inverse images of certain Schubert cycles.











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