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Birationally rigid Fano threefold hypersurfaces

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Ivan Cheltsov, School of Mathematics, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, United Kingdom and Jihun Park, Center for Geometry and Physics, Institute for Basic Science (IBS) 77 Cheongam-ro, Nam-gu, Pohang, Gyeongbuk, 790-784, Korea – and – Department of Mathematics, POSTECH 77 Cheongam-ro, Nam-gu, Pohang, Gyeongbuk, 790-784, Korea

Publication: Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society
Publication Year: 2017; Volume 246, Number 1167
ISBNs: 978-1-4704-2316-2 (print); 978-1-4704-3643-8 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/memo/1167
Published electronically: December 6, 2016
Keywords: Fano hypersurface, weighted projective space, birationally rigid; birational involution
MSC: Primary 14E07, 14E08, 14J30, 14J45, 14J70

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Table of Contents

Chapters

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Smooth points and curves
  • 3. Singular points
  • 4. Birational involutions
  • 5. Proof of Main Theorem
  • 6. Epilogue

Abstract

We prove that every quasi-smooth weighted Fano threefold hypersurface in the 95 families of Fletcher and Reid is birationally rigid.

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