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Birationally rigid Pfaffian Fano 3-folds

Algebraic Geometry 2022-07-22 v2

Abstract

We classify birationally rigid orbifold Fano 3-folds of index one defined by 5×55 \times 5 Pfaffians. We give a sharp criterion for birational rigidity of these families based on the type of singularities that the varieties admit. Various conjectures are born out of our study, highlighting a possible approach to the classification of terminal Fano 3-folds. The birationally rigid cases are the first known rigid examples of Fanos that are not (weighted) complete intersection.

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@article{arxiv.1508.02974,
  title  = {Birationally rigid Pfaffian Fano 3-folds},
  author = {Hamid Abban and Takuzo Okada},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.02974},
  year   = {2022}
}

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Final version. To appear in Algebraic Geometry