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On the birational geometry of conic bundles over the projective space

Algebraic Geometry 2023-10-06 v2

Abstract

Let π:ZPn1\pi:Z\rightarrow\mathbb{P}^{n-1} be a general minimal nn-fold conic bundle with a hypersurface BZPn1B_Z\subset\mathbb{P}^{n-1} of degree dd as discriminant. We prove that if d4n+1d\geq 4n+1 then KZ-K_Z is not pseudo-effective, and that if d=4nd = 4n then none of the integral multiples of KZ-K_{Z} is effective. Finally, we provide examples of smooth unirational nn-fold conic bundles π:ZPn1\pi:Z\rightarrow\mathbb{P}^{n-1} with discriminant of arbitrarily high degree.

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@article{arxiv.2110.10057,
  title  = {On the birational geometry of conic bundles over the projective space},
  author = {Alex Massarenti and Massimiliano Mella},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.10057},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

13 pages. We thank the referee for pointing out a mistake in a statement, about a birational version of Theorem 1.1 for 3-folds, that we removed. To appear in Mathematische Nachrichten