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Sep 21, 2013 at 23:54 comment added Sándor Kovács @Chen:(This assumes that we're in characteristic zero. Otherwise the statement is not true.) If $X$ is unirational, then $K_X$ cannot be trivial or even torsion. If the Picard number is one, then any such divisor is either ample or negative ample. Again if $X$ is unirational, then $K_X$ cannot be ample. So $-K_X$ is ample, and hence $X$ is Fano. (If the Picard group is $\mathbb Z$, then you don't even need to worry about torsion.)
Sep 21, 2013 at 14:48 vote accept Chen
Sep 21, 2013 at 14:48
Sep 21, 2013 at 11:17 comment added Chen @ulrich: Could you please give me a reference.
Sep 21, 2013 at 9:41 comment added naf @Chen: Unirationality and Picard number 1 does.
Sep 21, 2013 at 9:15 comment added Chen @ulrich: Does unirational imply Fano?
Sep 21, 2013 at 7:12 comment added naf @Jim Bryan: It is easy to see that the moduli space (with fixed determinant bundle) is unirational.
Sep 21, 2013 at 3:53 comment added Jim Bryan I'm confused. Why do you say that Picard number 1 implies it is Fano? A K3 surface can have $\mathbb{Z}$ for a Picard group.
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