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Non-rigid quartic 3-folds

Algebraic Geometry 2022-07-22 v2

Abstract

Let XP4X\subset \mathbb{P}^4 be a terminal factorial quartic 33-fold. If XX is non-singular, XX is \emph{birationally rigid}, i.e. the classical MMP on any terminal Q\mathbb{Q}-factorial projective variety ZZ birational to XX always terminates with XX. This no longer holds when XX is singular, but very few examples of non-rigid factorial quartics are known. In this article, we first bound the local analytic type of singularities that may occur on a terminal factorial quartic hypersurface XP4X\subset \mathbb{P}^4. A singular point on such a hypersurface is either of type cAncA_n (n1n\geq 1), or of type cDmcD_m (m4m\geq 4), or of type cE6,cE7cE_6, cE_7 or cE8cE_8. We first show that if (PX)(P \in X) is of type cAncA_n, nn is at most 77, and if (PX)(P \in X) is of type cDmcD_m, mm is at most 88. We then construct examples of non-rigid factorial quartic hypersurfaces whose singular loci consist (a) of a single point of type cAncA_n for 2n72\leq n\leq 7 (b) of a single point of type cDmcD_m for m=4m= 4 or 55 and (c) of a single point of type cEkcE_k for k=6,7k=6,7 or 88.

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@article{arxiv.1310.5554,
  title  = {Non-rigid quartic 3-folds},
  author = {Hamid Abban and Anne-Sophie Kaloghiros},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.5554},
  year   = {2022}
}

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Final version, to appear in Compositio Mathematica

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