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Pfaffian representations of cubic threefolds

Algebraic Geometry 2020-05-15 v1

Abstract

Given a cubic hypersurface XP4X\subset \mathbb{P}^4, we study the existence of Pfaffian representations of XX, namely of 6×66\times 6 skew-symmetric matrices of linear forms MM such that XX is defined by the equation Pf(M)=0Pf(M)=0. It was known that such a matrix always exists whenever XX is smooth. Here we prove that the same holds whenever XX is singular, hence that every cubic threefold is Pfaffian.

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@article{arxiv.2005.06593,
  title  = {Pfaffian representations of cubic threefolds},
  author = {Gaia Comaschi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.06593},
  year   = {2020}
}
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