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Analogy of a Fano manifold with anticanonical divisor
Some people say that a Fano manifold with anticanonical divisor is an analogue of a manifold with boundary. Where does this intuition come from?
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Minimal embeddings of certain Fano varieties with Picard number one
Let $X$ and $Y$ be two Fano varieties of the same dimension embedded into a same projective space $\mathbb P^N$, assume $Pic X= \mathbb Z\mathcal O_X(1)$ and $Pic Y=\mathbb Z\mathcal O_Y(1)$, where $\...
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How to check that exceptional sequence of vector bundles on Fano variety is helix foundation
Let $X$ be smooth Fano variety with $\operatorname{Pic}(X) = \mathbb{Z}$ of dimension $m$ with canonical class $K$, and $E_0,...,E_n$ is exceptional sequence of $(n+1)$ vector bundles in $D^b(Coh(X))$....
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symplectic form on an algebraic family
I know that smooth Fano varieties over $\mathbb{C}$ may be classified into a finite number of families in each dimension (1 in dimension 1, 10 in dimension 2, 105 in dimension 3 ...).
I am ...
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Mirror symmetry for blowups of the projective plane
Let $S$ be a blowup of the projective plane $\mathbb{CP}^2$ at $n$ points. When $n\le 9$, Auroux, Katzarkov and Orlov showed that them a mirror Landau-Ginzburg model is given by a certain elliptic ...
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Fano blow ups of $\mathbb CP^n$
Let $X$ be a smooth complex variety. Is it always possible to find an embedding $\varphi: X\to \mathbb CP^n$ for some $n$, such that the blow up of $\mathbb CP^n$ at $\varphi(X)$ is a Fano variety?
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Rationality of $V_1$ fano threefold
In the book of Iskovskikh and Prokhorov it seems not known wether the $V_1$, an hypersurface of degree $6$ in the weighted projective space $\mathbb{P}(3,2,1,1,1)$, is rational or not. Is there any ...
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Is the action of braid group on the set of full exceptional collections always transitive?
Let $X$ be a smooth complex projective variety and let $D^b(X)$ be the bounded derived category of coherent sheaves on $X$. Then the braid group on $\mathrm{dim}\:K_0(X)$ strands acts by mutations on ...
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Mirror of the autoequivalences of the derived category of del Pezzo surface?
One version of the homological mirror symmetry conjecture states that for every Fano variety $X$ there exists a Landau--Ginzburg model $W$ such that the category of B-branes on $X$ (i.e. the bounded ...
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Families of Fano varieties over non-hyperbolic curves
Let $C$ be a non-hyperbolic (smooth quasi-projective connected complex algebraic) curve. That is, $C$ is isomorphic to $\mathbb P^1, \mathbb A^1, \mathbb G_m$, or an elliptic curve.
Let $f:X\to C$ be ...
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Cohomology of the Hilbert square of a degree 14 K3 surface [Beauville-Donagi]
I have a question about the article by Beauville-Donagi called La variété des droites d'une hypersurface cubique de dimension 4 (C. R. Acad. Sc. Paris, t. 301, Série I, n° 14, 1985).
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Derived Category of the Fano 4fold variety of lines
Let $X\subset P^5$ be a smooth cubic fourfold. It is well known that its variety of lines $F(X)$ is a smooth fourfold Fano variety. Hence its derived category should have a semi-orthogonal ...
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Weak Fano and Log fano varieties
A projective smooth variety $X$ is weak Fano if $-K_X$ is nef and big. We say that $X$ is log Fano is there exists a divisor $D$ such that $-(K_X+D)$ is ample and $(X,D)$ is Kawamata log terminal.
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Why is the Fano variety of lines on a smooth three-dimensional quadric isomorphic to $\mathbb{P}^3$?
Let $Q \subset \mathbb{P}^4$ be a smooth three-dimensional quadric over an algebraically closed field $k$ ($\mathrm{char}(k) \neq 2$) and let $F$ be the Fano variety of lines on $Q$.
In "Iskovskikh ...
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Are varieties with negative Kodaira dimension covered by hyperkahlers
Let $X$ be a smooth projective variety with negative Kodaira dimension over $\mathbb{C}$.
Is there an integer $n\geq 1$, a smooth projective hyperkahler variety $H$, and a finite morphism $H\to X^n$?
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Frobenius splitting of Fano varieties
Dear MO,
Question 1. Do you know of an example of a Fano variety which is not Frobenius split?
Background
(1) A variety $X$ in characteristic $p$ is called Frobenius split if there is a "$p$-th ...
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How does one prove that the complete intersection of a quadric and a cubic of $\mathbb P^5$ is unirational?
The question is stated in the title, but I would like to add some motivation.
I've been teaching a course on complex tori and abelian varieties this semester and I would like to end it by showing ...
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Stability notion to smoothing varieties under a flat deformation with a smooth total space
Is there any stability notion that led to an algebraic variety be smoothable in general for Fano varieties or for Calabi-Yau varieties?
Note that Friedman found a nesessary condition that $X$ to be ...
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Components of Kontsevich moduli space of stable maps and multiple covers
Let $X\subset \mathbb P^n$ be a smooth projective variety over $\mathbb C$ which is Fano and $M_{0,0}(X,e)$ the (projective) Kontsevich moduli space of rational cuves of degree $e>1$. Is it ...
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Necessary condition on Calabi-Yau manfiold to be a hypersurface in a Fano manifold
Let $X$ be a smooth projective Calabi-Yau threefold. Are there any known obstructions to it
being a member of a base-point-free linear system in a nef-Fano fourfold?
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Picard groups of Fano varieties in positive characteristic
Let $k$ be an algebraically closed field of characteristic $p \geq 0$. Let $X$ be a smooth Fano variety over $k$ and let $\ell \neq p$ be a prime.
Is the natural morphism $\mathrm{Pic}(X) \otimes \...
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Fano varieties of cubic threefolds
Let $X$ be a smooth cubic threefold over $\mathbb{C}$. Let $F(X)$ denote the Fano variety of lines in $X$, which is a smooth surface of general type.
Is this class of surfaces distingushed ...
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Varieties with big anti-canonical divisor
I recently heard about the following problem:
Let $X$ be a projective variety with klt singularities and such that $-K_X$ is big. Is $X$ a Mori Dream Space ?
Now, $-K_X$ big if and only if $-K_X -\...
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Toric Fano manifolds with Picard number 1
As far as I know, toric Fano manifolds are classified only up to dimension 4. In dimension one the projective line is the only example. In dimension two we have five examples: $\mathbb P ^2$, $\mathbb ...
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simple normal crossing divisors on Fano manifold
Let $M$ be a Fano manifold. And $D=\mathop\sum\limits_{i=1}^r\tau_iD_i\in|-\lambda K_M|$ is a simple normal crossing $\mathbb{R}$-divisor where $\tau_i\in(0,1)$. Can we know that $D_i$s are ample (or $...
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Does a moving family of lines through a fixed point produce a singularity?
This is just a feeling that I had and I am curious if it is totally wrong or true to some extent.
Let $X\subseteq \mathbb{P}^r$ be an integral hypersurface of degree $r-1$, which is not a cone. In ...
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The canonical bundle of an infinitesimal deformation
Let $X_0$ be a smooth projective variety over the complex numbers and let $X$ be an infinitesimal deformation of $X_0$ over the ring of dual numbers.
If the canonical bundle of $X_0$ is ample (resp. ...
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Existence of constant scalar curvature Kahler metrics on projective manifolds
It is well known that the blow-up of $\mathbb P^2$ in one or two points does not accept a Kahler-Einstein metric. Kahler-Einstein metrics are particular cases of constant scalar curvature Kahler ...
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Reference request: log Fano varieties
I need a reference for a proof of the following fact: let $X$ be a toric variety then $X$ is log Fano.
Thanks a lot.
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Is there an Enriques–Kodaira-like classification of Fano threefolds?
I am mainly interested in varieties over an algebraic closed field $k$ (or $\mathbb{C}$). The classification of complex surface is established in the last century and known as Enriques–Kodaira ...
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Components of Kontsevich moduli space of stable maps and reducible curves
Let $X\subset \mathbb P^n$ be a smooth projective variety which is Fano and $M_{0,0}(X,e)$ the (projective) Kontsevich moduli space of rational curves of degree $e>1$. Is it possible (or are there ...
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Is being fano preserved under flat base change [closed]
Let $K$ be a field of characteristic zero and $X$ be a projective variety over $\mbox{Spec} K$. Denote by $\bar{K}$ the algebraic closure of $K$. Let $\bar{X}$ be the fiber product $X \times_K \bar{K}$...
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Blow-up of $\mathbb{P}^4$ along a quadric surface
Let $Q\subset\mathbb{P}^3\subset\mathbb{P}^4$ be a smooth quadric surface, and let $X = Bl_Q\mathbb{P}^4$ the blow-up of $\mathbb{P}^4$ along $Q$. Let $H$ be the pull-back of the hyperplane section of ...
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Semiorthogonal decompositions for Fano 3-folds and 4folds
Let $X$ be a projective Fano 3-fold or 4-fold and let $D^b(X)$ be the bounded derived category of coherent sheaves on $X$. For what $X$ is it known a semi orthogonal decomposition into indecomposable ...
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Controlling singularities on log mmp
Suppose all my varieties are complex threefolds $X\rightarrow Y$ over some smooth base curve germ $Y$. We can assume the fibres are Del Pezzo surfaces with generic smooth fibre.
If I do (relative) ...
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Cohomology of twisted holomorphic forms on Fano threefolds
Given a Fano threefold $X$, its index $ind(X)$ is the largest integer $r$ such that there exists a divisor $H$ such that $rH \cong -K_X$. Let $\mathcal{L}$ be the associated (ample) line bundle and ...
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Are weak Fano 4-folds with canonical Gorenstein singularities bounded?
A Fano variety over $\mathbb{C}$ with Gorenstein singularity is called weak Fano if the anti-canonical divisor is nef and big.
Are there finite families of weak Fano 4-folds with canonical ...
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Big tangent bundle
Let $X$ be a nonsingular complex algebraic variety whose tangent bundle is $T_X$. I use Lazarsfeld's book for the definition of a big vector bundle. A line bundle $L$ is big if it has Itaka dimension ...
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Arithmetic of Fano varieties of lines
Let $k$ be a number field and let $X \subset \mathbb{P}^n$ be a non-singular hypersurface of degree $n-1$. Let $F(X)$ denote the Fano variety of lines of $X$. Then it is known that for general $X$ the ...
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Lines on Fano complete intersections
Let $X \subset \mathbb{P}^n$ be a non-singular complete intersection of $s$ hypersurfaces
of degrees $d_1,\dots,d_s$ over an algebraically closed field $k$ of characteristic zero. Let $d=d_1 + \dots + ...
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Bound for the Picard number of a Fano 3-fold
Let $X$ be a Fano 3-fold with terminal singularities. Is there some bound (possibly explicit) for the Picard rank of $X$ ?
If $X$ is smooth, it is well-known that the bound is $10$, obtained by del ...
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