Pliability conjecture for terminal factorial quartic hypersurfaces

Let XP4X\subset \mathbb{P}^4 be a terminal factorial quartic hypersurface. Let P(X)\mathcal P(X) denote its pliability, namely the set of square-birational-equivalence classes of Mori fibre spaces birational to XX; write [X][X] for the class represented by XX.

Pliability conjecture. The set P(X)\mathcal P(X) is finite, and

P(X)={[X]}\mathcal P(X)=\{[X]\}

precisely when XX has no worse than cA1cA_1 singularities. In particular, no terminal factorial quartic hypersurface is rational.

This general conjecture extends earlier work cited by the authors. The supplied text does not give evidence of a resolution.

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Hamid Abban and Anne-Sophie Kaloghiros, “Non-rigid quartic 3-folds”, arXiv:1310.5554 (2015).

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