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Explicit rationality of some cubic fourfolds

Algebraic Geometry 2019-09-04 v2

Abstract

Recent results of Hassett, Kuznetsov and others pointed out countably many divisors CdC_d in the open subset of P55=P(H0(OP5(3)))\mathbb{P}^{55}=\mathbb{P}(H^0(\mathcal{O}_{\mathbb{P}^5}(3))) parametrizing all cubic 4-folds and lead to the conjecture that the cubics corresponding to these divisors should be precisely the rational ones. Rationality has been proved by Fano for the first divisor C14C_{14} and in [arXiv:1707.00999] for the divisors C26C_{26} and C38C_{38}. In this note we describe explicit birational maps from a general cubic fourfold in C14C_{14}, in C26C_{26} and in C38C_{38} to P4\mathbb{P}^4, providing concrete geometric realizations of the more abstract constructions in [arXiv:1707.00999].

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@article{arxiv.1811.03502,
  title  = {Explicit rationality of some cubic fourfolds},
  author = {Francesco Russo and Giovanni Staglianò},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.03502},
  year   = {2019}
}

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