On the birational geometry of conic bundles over the projective space
Algebraic Geometry
2023-10-06 v2
Abstract
Let be a general minimal -fold conic bundle with a hypersurface of degree as discriminant. We prove that if then is not pseudo-effective, and that if then none of the integral multiples of is effective. Finally, we provide examples of smooth unirational -fold conic bundles with discriminant of arbitrarily high degree.
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Cite
@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