Second Chern class of Fano manifolds and anti-canonical geometry (Q2324863)

The paper under review studies the Bogomolov type inequality for second Chern classes of Fano manifolds of Picard number \(1\). The main result says that if \(X\) is a Fano manifold of dimension at least \(7\) and of Picard number \(1\), consider \(H\) the fundamental divisor and \(i_X\) the index of \(X\), then \[ (c_2(X)\cdot H^{n-2})/(H^n)\geq \begin{cases} \frac{11n-16}{6n-6} & \text{ if } i_X=2;\\ \frac{i_X(i_X-1)}{2} & \text{ if } 3\leq i_X\leq n. \end{cases} \] As an application, this paper shows that if \(X\) is a Fano manifold of dimension \(n \geq 4\) and index \(n-3\), then \(h^0(X, H) \geq n-2\), where \(H\) is the fundamental divisor; and \(H^{2n-2}(X,\mathbb{Z})\) is generated by curves. Then this paper studies when \(|-mK_X|\) is free or gives a birational map for a weak Fano variety \(X\) with canonical Gorenstein singularites. This paper proves certain results for weak Fano variety \(X\) with canonical Gorenstein singularites of dimension up to \(4\), and \(n\)-dimensional Fano manifolds with index \(n-3\).