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This note is about the Chow groups of a certain family of smooth cubic fourfolds. This family is characterized by the property that each cubic fourfold $X$ in the family has an involution such that the induced involution on the Fano variety…
In this short note, we observe that Theorem 3.1 in arXiv:1508.00682 for semiorthogonal indecomposability of the derived category of smooth DM stacks based on the canonical bundle can be extended to the case of projective varieties with…
Toute hypersurface cubique lisse complexe de dimension au moins 2 dont l'\'equation est donn\'ee par l'annulation d'une somme de formes cubiques \`a variables s\'epar\'ees, chaque forme impliquant au plus trois variables, est…
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