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Lagrangian 4-planes in holomorphic symplectic varieties of K3^[4] type

Algebraic Geometry 2013-08-27 v4

Abstract

We classify the cohomology classes of Lagrangian 4-planes 4\P^4 in a smooth manifold XX deformation equivalent to a Hilbert scheme of 4 points on a K3K3 surface, up to the monodromy action. Classically, the cone of effective curves on a K3K3 surface SS is generated by nonegative classes CC, for which (C,C)0(C,C)\geq0, and nodal classes CC, for which (C,C)=2(C,C)=-2; Hassett and Tschinkel conjecture that the cone of effective curves on a holomorphic symplectic variety XX is similarly controlled by "nodal" classes CC such that (C,C)=γ(C,C)=-\gamma, for (,)(\cdot,\cdot) now the Beauville-Bogomolov form, where γ\gamma classifies the geometry of the extremal contraction associated to CC. In particular, they conjecture that for XX deformation equivalent to a Hilbert scheme of nn points on a K3K3 surface, the class C=C=\ell of a line in a smooth Lagrangian nn-plane n\P^n must satisfy (,)=n+32(\ell,\ell)=-\frac{n+3}{2}. We prove the conjecture for n=4n=4 by computing the ring of monodromy invariants on XX, and showing there is a unique monodromy orbit of Lagrangian 4-planes.

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@article{arxiv.1111.0047,
  title  = {Lagrangian 4-planes in holomorphic symplectic varieties of K3^[4] type},
  author = {Benjamin Bakker and Andrei Jorza},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.0047},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

An alternative analysis of the diophantine equation in section 5 has been added