27 research outputs found
Some Loci of Rational Cubic Fourfolds
In this paper we investigate the divisor inside the moduli
space of smooth cubic hypersurfaces in , whose generic element is
a smooth cubic containing a smooth quartic scroll. Using the fact that all
degenerations of quartic scrolls in contained in a smooth cubic
hypersurface are surfaces with one apparent double point, we conclude that
every cubic hypersurface belonging to is rational. As an
application of our results and of the construction of some explicit examples
contained in the Appendix, we also prove that the Pfaffian locus is not open in
.Comment: 24 pages. Final, rewritten and expanded version with some new
results, to appear on Math. Annale
New examples of rational Gushel-Mukai fourfolds
We construct new examples of rational Gushel-Mukai fourfolds, giving more
evidence for the analog of the Kuznetsov Conjecture for cubic fourfolds: a
Gushel--Mukai fourfold is rational if and only if it admits an associated K3
surface.Comment: Minor changes. Exposition improved. To appear in Mathematische
Zeitschrif