Mori dreamness of blowups of weighted projective planes

We consider the blowup X(a, b, c) of a weighted projective space $${\mathbb {P}}(a,b,c)$$ P ( a , b , c ) at a general nonsingular point. We give a sufficient condition for a curve to be a negative curve on X(a, b, c) in terms of $$\chi ({\mathcal {O}}_X(C))$$ χ ( O X ( C ) ) . This can be applied to find the effective cone of X(a, b, c) and can serve as a starting point to prove the Mori dreamness of blowups of many weighted projective planes. We confirm the Mori dreamness of some X(a, b, c) as examples of our method.

SMOOTH FANO 4-FOLDS IN GORENSTEIN FORMATS

We construct some new deformation families of four-dimensional Fano manifolds of index one in some known classes of Gorenstein formats. These families have explicit descriptions in terms of equations, defining their image under the anticanonical embedding in some weighted projective space. They also have relatively smaller anticanonical degree than most other known families of smooth Fano 4-folds.

Simple cyclic covers of the plane and the Seshadri constants of some general hypersurfaces in weighted projective space

Let $$X \subset {\mathbb P}(1,1,1,m)$$ X ⊂ P ( 1 , 1 , 1 , m ) be a general hypersurface of degree md for some for $$d\ge 2$$ d ≥ 2 and $$m\ge 3$$ m ≥ 3 . We prove that the Seshadri constant $$\varepsilon ( {\mathcal O}_X(1), x)$$ ε ( O X ( 1 ) , x ) at a general point $$x\in X$$ x ∈ X lies in the interval $$\left[ \sqrt{d}- \frac{d}{m}, \sqrt{d}\right] $$ d - d m , d and thus approaches the possibly irrational number $$\sqrt{d}$$ d as m grows. The main step is a detailed study of the case where X is a simple cyclic cover of the plane.

Hodge numbers of hypersurfaces in ℙ4 with ordinary triple points

We give a formula for the Hodge numbers of a three-dimensional hypersurface in a weighted projective space with only ordinary triple points as singularities.

On the arithmetic of a family of degree - two K3 surfaces

Let ℙ denote the weighted projective space with weights (1, 1, 1, 3) over the rationals, with coordinates x, y, z and w; let $\mathcal{X}$ be the generic element of the family of surfaces in ℙ given by \begin{equation*} X\colon w^2=x^6+y^6+z^6+tx^2y^2z^2. \end{equation*} The surface $\mathcal{X}$ is a K3 surface over the function field ℚ(t). In this paper, we explicitly compute the geometric Picard lattice of $\mathcal{X}$, together with its Galois module structure, as well as derive more results on the arithmetic of $\mathcal{X}$ and other elements of the family X.

Circle of Sarkisov Links on a Fano 3-Fold

For a general Fano 3-fold of index 1 in the weighted projective space ℙ(1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3) we construct two new birational models that are Mori fibre spaces in the framework of the so-called Sarkisov program. We highlight a relation between the corresponding birational maps, as a circle of Sarkisov links, visualizing the notion of relations in the Sarkisov program.

The relative Hilbert scheme of projection morphisms

Let [Formula: see text] be a smooth hypersurface of degree [Formula: see text] in a projective space [Formula: see text] and take a point [Formula: see text] in [Formula: see text]. Let [Formula: see text] be the relative Hilbert scheme parametrizing zero-dimensional subscheme, of length [Formula: see text], of fibers of the projection morphism [Formula: see text] from [Formula: see text]. In this paper we present an embedding of the relative Hilbert scheme [Formula: see text] into a weighted projective space and describe its defining ideal for general [Formula: see text]. We also study line bundles on the relative Hilbert scheme [Formula: see text] for [Formula: see text] and general [Formula: see text].