On factoriality of nodal threefolds
Author:
Ivan Cheltsov
Journal:
J. Algebraic Geom. 14 (2005), 663-690
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/S1056-3911-05-00405-4
Published electronically:
May 11, 2005
MathSciNet review:
2147353
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Abstract: We prove the $\mathbb {Q}$-factoriality of a nodal hypersurface in $\mathbb {P}^{4}$ of degree $n$ with at most ${\frac {(n-1)^{2}}{4}}$ nodes and the $\mathbb {Q}$-factoriality of a double cover of $\mathbb {P}^{3}$ branched over a nodal surface of degree $2r$ with at most ${\frac {(2r-1)r}{3}}$ nodes.
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Ch04b I. Cheltsov, Double spaces with isolated singularities, arXiv:math.AG/0405194 (2004).
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Co00 A. Corti, Singularities of linear systems and 3-fold birational geometry, L.M.S. Lecture Note Series 281 (2000), 259–312.
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Har80 R. Hartshorne, Stable reflexive sheaves, Math. Ann. 254 (1980), 121–176.
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Me03 M. Mella, Birational geometry of quartic 3-folds II: the importance of being ${\mathbb Q}$-factorial, Math. Ann. 330 (2004), 107–126.
Mi68 J. Milnor, Singular points of complex hypersurfaces, (Princeton Univ. Press, New Jersey, 1968).
Pu00 A. Pukhlikov, Essentials of the method of maximal singularities, L.M.S. Lecture Note Series 281 (2000), 73–100.
Sh92 V. V. Shokurov, Three-dimensional log perestroikas, Izv. Ross. Akad. Nauk 56 (1992), 105–203.
vSt93 D. van Straten, A quintic hypersurface in $\mathbb {P}^{4}$ with $130$ nodes, Topology 32 (1993), 857–864.
Va83 A. Varchenko, On semicontinuity of the spectrum and an upper bound for the number of singular points of projective hypersurfaces, Dokl. Aka. Nauk USSR 270 (1983), 1294–1297.
Wa98 J. Wahl, Nodes on sextic hypersurfaces in $\mathbb {P}^3$, J. Diff. Geom. 48 (1998), 439–444.
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Additional Information
Ivan Cheltsov
Affiliation:
Steklov Institute of Mathematics, 8 Gubkin street, Moscow 117966, Russia
Address at time of publication:
School of Mathematics, The University of Edinburgh, Kings Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, UK
MR Author ID:
607648
Email:
cheltsov@yahoo.com, I.Cheltsov@ed.ac.uk
Received by editor(s):
June 17, 2004
Received by editor(s) in revised form:
October 6, 2004, October 18, 2004, and November 21, 2004
Published electronically:
May 11, 2005
Additional Notes:
The author is very grateful to A. Corti, M. Grinenko, V. Iskovskikh, S. Kudryavtsev, V. Kulikov, M. Mella, J. Park, Yu. Prokhorov, A. Pukhlikov, V. Shokurov, L. Wotzlaw for fruitful conversations. Special thanks goes to V. Kulikov for Lemma 38. The author would also like to thank the referee for useful comments.