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The K-moduli space of a family of conic bundle threefolds

Algebraic Geometry 2024-03-15 v1

Abstract

We describe the 6-dimensional compact K-moduli space of Fano threefolds in deformation family No 2.18. These Fano threefolds are double covers of P1×P2\mathbb P^1\times\mathbb P^2 branched along smooth (2,2)(2,2)-surfaces, and Cheltsov--Fujita--Kishimoto--Park proved that any smooth Fano threefold in this family is K-stable. A member of family No 2.18 admits the structures of a conic bundle and a quadric surface bundle. We prove that K-polystable limits of these Fano threefolds admit conic bundle structures, but not necessarily del Pezzo fibration structures. We study this K-moduli space via the moduli space of log Fano pairs (P1×P2,cR)(\mathbb P^1\times\mathbb P^2, c R) for c=1/2c=1/2 and RR a (2,2)(2,2)-divisor, which we construct using wall-crossings. In the case where the divisor is proportional to the anti-canonical divisor, the first author, together with Ascher and Liu, developed a framework for wall crossings in K-moduli and proved that there are only finitely many walls, which occur at rational values of the coefficient cc. This paper constructs the first example of wall-crossing in K-moduli in the non-proportional setting, and we find a wall at an irrational value of cc. In particular, we obtain explicit descriptions of the GIT and K-moduli spaces (for c1/2c \leq 1/2) of these (2,2)(2,2)-divisors. Furthermore, using the conic bundle structure, we study the relationship with the GIT moduli space of plane quartic curves.

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@article{arxiv.2403.09557,
  title  = {The K-moduli space of a family of conic bundle threefolds},
  author = {Kristin DeVleming and Lena Ji and Patrick Kennedy-Hunt and Ming Hao Quek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.09557},
  year   = {2024}
}

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128 pages, 11 figures. Comments are welcome