112 research outputs found

    Ruled Fano fivefolds of index two

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    We classify Fano fivefolds of index two which are projectivization of rank two vector bundles over four dimensional manifolds

    Double covers of some Fano manifolds as hyperplane sections

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    Let Y be a Fano manifold of dimension n \geq 3 with b_2(Y)=1 and index n-1, and let A be a double cover of Y. We determine which complex projective manifolds can admit A among their hyperplane sections

    Projective manifolds containing a large linear subspace with nef normal bundle

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    We classify smooth complex projective varieties XX of dimension 2s+12s+1 in PN{\mathbb P}^N containing a linear subspace Λ\Lambda of dimension ss whose normal bundle NΛ/XN_{\Lambda /X} is numerically effective

    Rational curves and bounds on the Picard number of Fano manifolds

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    We prove that Generalized Mukai Conjecture holds for Fano manifolds XX of pseudoindex iX(dimX+3)/3i_X \geq (dim X + 3)/3. We also give different proofs of the conjecture for Fano fourfolds and fivefolds

    Manifolds covered by lines and extremal rays

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    Let X be a smooth complex projective variety and let H be an ample line bundle. Assume that X is covered by rational curves with degree one with respect to H and with anticanonical degree greater than or equal to (dim X -1)/2. We prove that there is a covering family of such curves whose numerical class spans an extremal ray in the cone of curves NE(X)

    Connections between the geometry of a projective variety and of an ample section

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    Let XX be a smooth complex projective variety and let Z=(s=0)Z = (s = 0) be a smooth submanifold which is the zero locus of a section of an ample vector bundle E\mathcal E of rank rr with dimZ=dimXr\dim Z = \dim X - r. We show with some examples that in general the Kleiman--Mori cones NE(Z)\overline{{\rm NE}(Z)} and NE(X)\overline{{\rm NE}(X)} are different. We then give a necessary and sufficient condition for an extremal ray in NE(X)\overline{{\rm NE}(X)} to be also extremal in NE(Z)\overline{{\rm NE}(Z)}. We apply this result to the case r=1r = 1 and ZZ a Fano manifold of high index; in particular we classify all XX with an ample divisor which is a Mukai manifold of dimension 4\geq 4. In the last section we prove a general result in case ZZ is a minimal variety with 0κ(Z)<dimZ0 \leq \kappa (Z) < \dim Z

    Small modifications of Mori dream spaces arising from C*-actions

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    We link small modifications of projective varieties with a C*-action to their GIT quotients. Namely, using flips with centers in closures of Bialynicki-Birula cells, we produce a system of birational equivariant modifications of the original variety, which includes those on which a quotient map extends from a set of semistable points to a regular morphism. The structure of the modifications is completely described for the blowup along the sink and the source of smooth varieties with Picard number one with a C*-action which has no finite isotropy for any point. Examples can be constructed upon homogeneous varieties with a C*-action associated to short grading of their Lie algebras
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