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The Fano variety of lines and rationality problem for a cubic hypersurface

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We find a relation between a cubic hypersurface $Y$ and its Fano variety of lines $F(Y)$ in the Grothendieck ring of varieties. We prove that if the class of an affine line is not a zero-divisor in the Grothendieck ring of varieties, then Fano variety of lines on a smooth rational cubic fourfold is birational to a Hilbert scheme of two points on a K3 surface; in particular, general cubic fourfold is irrational.

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Zeta functions of K3 categories over finite fields

math.AG · 2025-05-23 · conditional · novelty 8.0

Noncommutative K3 surfaces over finite fields get zeta functions whose point counts can be negative, obstruct geometricity, and in one explicit example, perfectly mimic a K3 surface without being geometric.

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  • Zeta functions of K3 categories over finite fields math.AG · 2025-05-23 · conditional · none · ref 23 · internal anchor

    Noncommutative K3 surfaces over finite fields get zeta functions whose point counts can be negative, obstruct geometricity, and in one explicit example, perfectly mimic a K3 surface without being geometric.