Non-rationality of the symmetric sextic Fano threefold

2011/02/07 by Beauville, Arnaud · 1 citation
#Algebraic Geometry (math.AG) #FOS: Mathematics

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1102.1255

Abstract

We give a simple proof of the non-rationality of the Fano threefold defined by the equations Σx_i = Σx_i² = Σx_i³ = 0 in P⁶ .

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