Algebraic Geometry V Fano Varieties [Hardcover]

This EMS volume provides an exposition of the structure theory of Fano varieties, i.e. algebraic varieties with an ample anticanonical divisor. This book will be very useful as a reference and research guide for researchers and graduate students in algebraic geometry.

0. Introduction 1. Preliminaries 1.1. Singularities 1.2. On Numerical Geometry of Cycles 1.3. On the Mori Minimal Model Program 1.4. Results on Minimal Models in Dimension Three 2. Basic Properties of Fano Varieties 2.1. Definitions, Examples and Simplest Properties 2.2. Some General Results 2.3. Existence of Good Divisors in the Fundamental Linear System 2.4. Base Points in the Fundamental Linear System 3. Del Pezzo Varieties and Fano Varieties of Large Index 3.1. On some Preliminary Results of Fujita 3.2. Del Pezzo Varieties. Definition and preliminary Results 3.3. Nonsingular del Pezzo Varieties. Statement of the Main Theorem 3.4. Del Pezzo Varieties with the Picard Number $?rho =1$ 3.5. Del Pezzo Varieties with the Picard Number $?rho ?geq 2$ 4. Fano Threefolds with $?rho =1$ 4.1. Elementary Rational Maps: Preliminary Results 4.2. Families of Lines and Conics on Fano Threefolds 4.3. Elementary Rational Maps with Center along a Line 4.4. Elementary Rational Maps with Center along a Conic 4.5. Elementary Rational Maps with Center at a Point 4.6. Some other Rational Maps 5. Fano Manifolds of Coindex $3$ 5.1. Fano Threefolds of Genus $6$ and $8$: Gushels Approach 5.2. Review of Mukais Results 6. Boundedness and Rational Connectedness of Fano Manifolds 6.1. Uniruledness 6.2. Rational Connectedness of Fano Manifolds 7. Fano Manifolds with $?rho ?ge 2$ 7.1. Fano Threefolds with Picard Number $?rho ?ge 2$ 7.2. Higher-diumensional Fano Manifolds with $?rho ?ge 2$ 8. Rationality Questions for Fano Varieties I 8.1. Intermediate Jacobian and Prym Varieties 8.2. Intermediate Jacobian: the Abel--Jacobi Map 8.3. The Brauer Group as a Birational Invariant 9. Rationality Questions for Fano Varietil3…