Geometry of lines on a cubic fourfold
Abstract
For a general cubic fourfold with Fano scheme of lines , we prove a number of properties of the universal family of lines and various subloci. We first describe the moduli and ramification theory of the genus four fibration and explore its relation to a birational model of in . The main part of the paper is devoted to describing the locus of triple lines, i.e., the fixed locus of the Voisin map , in particular proving it is an irreducible projective singular surface of class and detailing its intersection with the locus of second type lines. A consequence of the analysis of the singularities of is a geometric proof of the fact that if is very general, then the number of singular (necessarily 1-nodal) rational curves in of primitive class is 3780.
Cite
@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)