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An Exceptional Locus in the Perfect Compactification of Ag

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2022

By
N. I. Shepherd-Barron
Edited by
Hamid Abban ,
Gavin Brown ,
Alexander Kasprzyk  and
Shigefumi Mori
Hamid Abban
Affiliation:
Loughborough University
Gavin Brown
Affiliation:
University of Warwick
Alexander Kasprzyk
Affiliation:
University of Nottingham
Shigefumi Mori
Affiliation:
Kyoto University, Japan
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Summary

We prove that Q-Fano threefolds of Fano index ≥ 8 are rational.

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Recent Developments in Algebraic Geometry
To Miles Reid for his 70th Birthday
 , pp. 275 - 295
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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