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    Pfaffian representations of cubic threefolds

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    Given a cubic hypersurface XβŠ‚P4X\subset \mathbb{P}^4, we study the existence of Pfaffian representations of XX, namely of 6Γ—66\times 6 skew-symmetric matrices of linear forms MM such that XX is defined by the equation Pf(M)=0Pf(M)=0. It was known that such a matrix always exists whenever XX is smooth. Here we prove that the same holds whenever XX is singular, hence that every cubic threefold is Pfaffian
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