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Geometry of lines on a cubic fourfold

Algebraic Geometry 2023-03-24 v3

Abstract

For a general cubic fourfold XP5X\subset\mathbb{P}^5 with Fano scheme of lines FF, we prove a number of properties of the universal family of lines IFI\to F and various subloci. We first describe the moduli and ramification theory of the genus four fibration p:IXp:I\to X and explore its relation to a birational model of FF in II. The main part of the paper is devoted to describing the locus VFV\subset F of triple lines, i.e., the fixed locus of the Voisin map ϕ:FF\phi:F\dashrightarrow F, in particular proving it is an irreducible projective singular surface of class 21c2(UF)21\mathrm{c}_2(\mathcal{U}_F) and detailing its intersection with the locus SS of second type lines. A consequence of the analysis of the singularities of VV is a geometric proof of the fact that if XX is very general, then the number of singular (necessarily 1-nodal) rational curves in FF of primitive class is 3780.

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@article{arxiv.2109.08493,
  title  = {Geometry of lines on a cubic fourfold},
  author = {Frank Gounelas and Alexis Kouvidakis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.08493},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

Minor corrections. Published in IMRN. (This paper was split off from an older version of arXiv:2008.05162)

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