Seminar / Workshop
Image
Classification of Fano fourfolds with large anticanonical base locus
6 May 2026, start time 15:30 - 16:30
PovoZero, Via Sommarive 14, Povo (Trento)
Seminar Room "1"
Organizer: Department of Mathematics
Target audience: Students, PhD students, Research Fellows, Researchers, Postdoctoral Researcher
Referent: Federico Fallucca, Roberto Pignatelli, Elisa Postinghel, Luis E. Solá Conde
Image
Geometry Seminars Department of Mathematics
Speaker: Saverio Andrea Secci (SISSA - Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati)
A famous theorem of Shokurov states that a general anticanonical divisor of a smooth Fano threefold is a smooth K3 surface. In a joint work with Andreas Höring we proved that for four
dimensional Fano manifolds the behaviour is completely opposite: if the anticanonical base locus is a normal surface, all the anticanonical divisors are singular. In this talk I will present our follow-up result, namely the classification of smooth Fano fourfolds with scheme-theoretic base locus a smooth surface: they form 22 families. I will also mention a result on elliptic Calabi-Yau threefolds that we obtained as a technical step in our study.