Speaker: Sergey Galkin
Title: Rational cubic fourfolds, their lines, and associated K3 surfaces
Date: May 1, 2014, 9:30 - 11:00
Place: Istanbul Centre for Mathematical Sciences
Abstract:
This is a joint work with Evgeny Shinder.
Assume that an affine line is not a zero divisor in the Grothendieck ring of complex varieties.
We show that under this assumption the variety of lines on a rational cubic fourfold is birational
to a Hilbert scheme of two points on a K3 surface.
In particular, this implies conjecture of Hassett on Hodge structures,
which in turn implies conjecture of V.A.Iskovskikh: rational cubic fourfolds
have rank of algebraic cycles at least two, in particular, generic cubic fourfold is irrational.