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Existence of good divisors on Mukai manifolds

alg-geom 2008-02-03 v1 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

A normal projective variety X is called Fano if a multiple of the anticanonical Weil divisor, -K_X, is an ample Cartier divisor, the index of a Fano variety is the number i(X):=sup{t: -K_X= tH, for some ample Cartier divisor H}. Mukai announced, the classification of smooth Fano manifolds X of index i(X)=n-2, under the assumption that the linear system |H| contains a smooth divisor. In this paper we prove that this assumption is always satisfied. Therefore the result of Mukai provide a complete classification of smooth Fano n-folds of index i(X)=n2i(X)=n-2, Mukai manifolds.

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@article{arxiv.alg-geom/9611024,
  title  = {Existence of good divisors on Mukai manifolds},
  author = {Massimiliano Mella},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:alg-geom/9611024},
  year   = {2008}
}

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