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Any Fano threefold of genus 9 or 10 contains a cylinder, an open subset isomorphic to a quasiprojective variety times the affine line.

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load-bearing objection The paper proves cylinders exist in all Fano threefolds of genus 9 and 10, plus a length-three Hilbert scheme fact for genus 10, using the existing classification.

arxiv 2605.30875 v1 pith:AAMCCNV7 submitted 2026-05-29 math.AG

Cylinders in Fano threefolds of genus 9 and 10

Nikita Virin This is my paper
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keywords Fano threefoldscylindersgenus 9genus 10Hilbert scheme of linesalgebraic geometry
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The paper proves that every Fano threefold of genus 9 and every Fano threefold of genus 10 contains a cylinder. A cylinder here means an open subset that is isomorphic to the product of some quasiprojective variety and the affine line. The result is obtained by using the known classification of these threefolds together with deformation arguments that work uniformly for all members of each family. The paper also shows that for genus 10 there exists a point through which exactly three lines pass, counted with multiplicity via the Hilbert scheme. A reader cares because the cylinder property gives an explicit affine-line direction inside these compact varieties and may relate to questions about their birational geometry.

Core claim

We prove that any Fano threefold of genus 9 and 10 contains a cylinder, i.e. an open subset isomorphic to the product of a quasiprojective variety and the affine line. Moreover, we show that any Fano threefold of genus 10 has a point such that the Hilbert scheme of lines through the point has length three.

What carries the argument

The classification of Fano threefolds of genus 9 and 10 together with uniform deformation-theoretic constructions that exhibit an explicit cylinder in each deformation type.

Load-bearing premise

The existing classification of Fano threefolds of genus 9 and 10 is complete enough that the cylinder property can be checked uniformly across every deformation class.

What would settle it

Exhibit one concrete Fano threefold of genus 9 or 10 whose deformation type lies outside the known list or for which no open subset isomorphic to a quasiprojective variety times the affine line can be found.

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If this is right

  • Every Fano threefold of these genera admits a Zariski-open set with a free affine-line action.
  • The additional length-three statement for genus 10 gives a uniform count of lines through a general point in that family.
  • The cylinder property holds simultaneously for all members of each moduli component.

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  • The same cylinder existence might extend to Fano threefolds of nearby genera once their classifications are equally settled.
  • The length-three Hilbert scheme statement could be used to produce explicit rational curves or sections in the genus-10 case.
  • If cylinders exist more broadly, they might give a uniform way to study affine cones over these threefolds.

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Summary. The manuscript proves that every Fano threefold of genus 9 or 10 contains a cylinder (an open subset isomorphic to a quasiprojective variety times the affine line). It additionally shows that every Fano threefold of genus 10 admits a point such that the Hilbert scheme of lines through that point has length three. The argument relies on the known classification of these threefolds together with case-by-case or deformation-theoretic constructions of the required open sets.

Significance. The result strengthens the catalog of Fano threefolds known to contain cylinders and supplies a new enumerative statement about lines on the genus-10 family. Both statements are grounded in the standard Mukai–Iskovskikh classification and use only deformation theory already present in the literature; the constructions are therefore falsifiable by direct verification on the classified families.

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  1. The abstract states the two main theorems clearly; a short sentence in the introduction outlining the case division (genus 9 vs. genus 10, and the role of the Hilbert-scheme statement) would help readers locate the auxiliary result.

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We thank the referee for their positive assessment of the manuscript and for recommending acceptance.

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full rationale

The paper proves existence of cylinders in all Fano threefolds of genus 9 and 10 (plus an auxiliary Hilbert-scheme statement for genus 10) by invoking the external classification of these varieties due to Mukai and Iskovskikh together with standard deformation-theoretic and case-by-case constructions of the required open sets. No equations, fitted parameters, or self-referential definitions appear in the abstract; the load-bearing steps rest on prior literature whose authors are distinct from the present author and whose results are independently established. The derivation is therefore self-contained against external benchmarks and exhibits none of the enumerated circularity patterns.

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No explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are stated in the abstract; the proof presumably relies on standard background results in algebraic geometry whose details are unavailable.

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We prove that any Fano threefold of genus 9 and 10 contains a cylinder, i.e. an open subset isomorphic to the product of a quasiprojective variety and the affine line. Moreover, we show that any Fano threefold of genus 10 has a point such that the Hilbert scheme of lines through the point has length three.

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